Kabul, Oct 21 : The Taliban have reportedly shot dead a Christian lady social aid worker in Kabul, identified as 34-year-old Gayle Williams, accusing her of spreading her religion.

According to a report in The News, the aid worker, a South African-British national, helped handicapped Afghans, while working for the woman’s aid group ‘Serve’ (Serving Emergency Relief and Vocational Enterprises).

Kabul - Two German soldiers and five children were killed in a suicide attack on German troops near the city of Kunduz in Northern Afghanistan, the provincial government said Monday.

Kabul - Police said on Monday that a group of gunmen abducted an Afghan former presidential candidate in the capital Kabul.

Humayun Asifi and two relatives were kidnapped by unknown gunmen at 11 pm on Sunday night when he was on his way to his home in western part of Kabul city, Zemarai Bashary, interior ministry spokesman, said.

Bashary could not say if the kidnapping was politically motivated or was the work of criminal gangs, which have recently carried out similar abductions in the city.

A search operation and investigation were underway, he said.

Kabul - Unknown gunmen killed a foreign woman when she was going to her office in the western part of capital Kabul on Monday, police said.

The attackers, who were riding on motorbike, fled the area following the shooting, said Zemarai Bashary, interior ministry spokesman.

Bashary declined to provide more information or identify the victim.

But a police official, who did not want to be named because he was not authorized to talk to news media, said the victim was from South Africa and worked with aid organization.

Kabul - NATO forces killed more than 20 suspected Taliban militants during a two-day operation in central Afghanistan, the alliance said in a statement Monday.

The insurgents were killed in combat supported by air assaults on Thursday in Wardak province, 60 kilometres west of Kabul.

A statement by NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said that the militants were pushed south from Jalrez to Nerkh district of the same province in the first engagement.