Kabul - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Thursday he supported a new US strategy in the war against terror, which includes military operations inside Pakistan, and called for more international aid and training for his country's security forces.

"The new strategy is something that me and my colleagues in the Afghan government have talked about three and a half years ago," Karzai said at a press conference marking the seventh anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks for which the al-Qaeda terror network claimed responsibility.

Kabul - NATO aircraft targeted a group of Taliban militants who were surrounded by Afghan police forces in southern Afghanistan, killing 15 militants, a provincial police chief said Tuesday.

The aerial bombing took place Monday night after local police forces, acting on intelligence information, surrounded a garden in Sozak village outside Tarin Kot, the provincial capital of Uruzgan province, Juma Gul Hemat said.

Kabul, Sept. 8 : The grainy video eight-minute footage, seen exclusively by The Times, has emerged as the most compelling evidence of a carnage perpetrated by American troops in Nawabad, Afghanistan, on August 21 this year.

The video has now prompted the Pentagon to reopen the investigation into the attack. An officer is being sent to Nawabad to review its previous inquiry.

Kabul  - Civilian casualties from US and NATO airstrikes in Afghanistan tripled last year to more than 500 and are eroding public support for the government, Human Rights Watch said Monday.

The New York-based organization's report issued Monday also condemned the Taliban's use of "human shields" during their attacks against the combined forces as "violation of the laws of war."

Kabul - A Dutch and a Canadian soldier were killed in separate roadside bombings in southern Afghanistan while six Afghan civilians, including a child and a woman, were killed in a similar attack in the same region, officials said Monday.

The two soldiers with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed Sunday in Kandahar and Uruzgan provinces, the alliance said.

Kabul - The top US commander in Afghanistan has requested a new probe into allegations that a large number of civilians were killed in a US air raid in western Afghanistan on August 22.

Afghan government and UN teams said that 90 civilians, including 60 children, were killed in the air raid in Azizabad village in Shindand district of Herat province.