Kabul - A soldier was killed by an explosive device in Afghanistan Saturday while at least four other international troops were injured in two separate attacks on Sunday, military sources reported.

Additionally, an operation by US-lead coalition forces killed 30 Taliban insurgents Saturday night in the latest violence in Afghanistan.

Kabul - US-led coalition forces reported Saturday the arrest of one Taliban leader and the death of another in a series of recent offensives.

Security officials in southern Afghanistan said that a key local Taliban commander was killed Saturday during a joint operation by US and Afghan forces in Zabul province.

Obaid Agha was killed in the attack in Bakarzi, near Qalat City, according to Ghulam Jilani, provincial security chief. Jilani added that several other Taliban militants were injured in the operation.

Kabul  - The US-led coalition said Saturday that its forces killed 10 militants, including foreign fighters, during an operation against an al-Qaeda-linked militant network in east-central Afghanistan.

The militants of the Haqqani network who were targeted Thursday in the Zadran district of Paktia province planted roadside bombs and coordinated suicide bombings and other attacks on coalition and Afghan forces in the area, the coalition said.

Kabul - Four suspected al-Qaeda-associated militants and 12 Taliban insurgents were killed while 20 others were wounded in two separate operations in Afghanistan while three Afghan police injured in a suicide attack in Khost province, officials said on Friday.

Arsala Jamal, Khost province governor, said that at least three Afghan police were injured in a suicide attack in Bak district of south-eastern Khost province.

A suicide attacker detonated an explosives-filled car near a police vehicle just outside of Khost city, injuring three police official, the governor said.

Kabul - Four suspected al-Qaeda-a

Kabul  - The US-led coalition in Afghanistan on Friday said its troops killed four suspected al-Qaeda-associated militants during an operation in the eastern province of Paktia.

A military statement released by the US forces said that the foreign fighters were killed in Paktia province on Thursday.

The operation was carried out in Zurmat district of south-eastern Paktia province.