Kabul- A US-led coalition soldier was killed in a roadside bomb blast in western Afghanistan while six Taliban militants, including a rebel commander, were killed in clashes with Afghan police and coalition forces elsewhere in the country, officials said Friday.

The coalition soldier was killed Friday in a roadside blast in western Afghanistan, the US military said in a statement.

The statement did not reveal the location of the explosion or the nationality of the deceased soldier, but most of the soldiers serving under the command of coalition are from the United States.

Kabul, Sept. 19 : At least nine million Afghans face the prospect of acute food shortage this winter due to a poor harvest this year.

This looming food crisis in Afghanistan could force many villagers relocate, says a New York Times report.

The crisis has been generated by the harshest winter in memory, a drought across much of the country, problems of deteriorating security, pressure of returning refugees and the effects of rising world food prices.

The failure of the Afghan government and foreign donors to develop the country’s main economic sector, agriculture, has compounded the problems, officials say.

They warn that the food crisis could make an already bad security situation worse.

Kabul- Afghan commandos and US-led coalition forces killed two militants and arrested six others, including a Taliban commander, in an eastern town close to Kabul, the US military said Friday.

The combined forces conducted a raid on the house of a Taliban commander and his associates in Surobi district, some 50 kilometres east of Kabul city, on Thursday, a US military statement said.

Kabul - NATO forces fatally shot a civilian in southern Afghanistan after the truck he was travelling in failed to stop as it approached a military convoy, the alliance said Friday.

The incident happened Thursday night near Kandahar city, the capital of the province of the same name, when a truck approached a NATO convoy head-on, a NATO statement said.

Kabul - Four US-led coalition soldiers and an Afghan national were killed in a roadside bomb blast in eastern Afghanistan Wednesday as US Defence Secretary Robert Gates visited the war-torn country.

The foreign soldiers' deaths were confirmed in a statement issued by US military authorities in Bagram, the main US base in the country, but did not disclose the nationality of the deceased soldiers or where exactly the bombing took place.

Most of the troops serving under the coalition banner are from the United States.

Kabul - Four US-led coalition soldiers and an Afghan national were killed in a roadside bomb blast in eastern Afghanistan Wednesday as US Defence Secretary Robert Gates visited the war-torn country.

The foreign soldiers' deaths were confirmed in statement issued by US military authorities in Bagram, the main US base in the country, but did not disclose the nationality of the deceased soldiers, nor did it say where exactly in the eastern region the incident took place.

Most of the troops serving under the coalition banner are from the United States.