Kabul - Three British troops were killed in a suicide attack believed to have been carried out by a 13-year-old boy in southern Afghanistan, while a fourth soldier was killed in a roadside blast in the same region, officials said Saturday.

The soldiers serving under the banner of NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed in Sangin district of volatile southern Helmand province on Friday, the alliance said in a statement.

Kabul - A NATO airstrike accidentally killed six Afghan police and wounded 11 others Wednesday after their post came under rebel attack and the alliance's air force was called in for support, a pro

Kabul - A Taliban commander was killed in Logar province in central Afghanistan in a joint

Kabul , Dec 8 : An international think tank has said that the Taliban holds a permanent presence in 72 percent of Afghanistan, but NATO denied the observation, saying the figures were not credible. It said it was impossible for militants to control large parts of the country.

The findings by the International Council on Security and Development (ICOS) come in the wake of a series of critical reports on Western-led military and development efforts to put an end to the seven-year Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan, The News reported.

Kabul  - Twelve Taliban militants were killed in clashes with police and US forces on Saturday, while five Afghan soldiers were killed in roadside bomb attacks around Afghanistan, officials said Sunday.

A group of Taliban fighters attacked a police post in Geriskh district of southern Helmand province on Saturday night, Daoud Ahmadi, spokesman for the provincial governor said.

Kabul - Three Canadian soldiers with the NATO-led security forces in Afghanistan and four Taliban militants were killed in the country's south, while Afghan authorities were investigating the deaths of eight prisoners in country's largest prison, officials said Saturday.

The soldiers, serving under the banner of UN-mandated International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), were killed in a roadside bomb blast in southern province of Kandahar on Friday, the Canadian Defence Ministry said in a statement.