Kabul - In the most recent clashes in volatile southern Afghanistan at least 36 Taliban militants were killed, officials said Wednesday.

A group of Taliban militants attacked a convoy of Afghan and US-led coalition forces in Faizabad area of Nawbahar in southern Zabul province on Tuesday, sparking a three-hour gun battle in the area, Ghulom Jailani Farahi, provincial security chief, said.

The combined forces called in air support and as a result 21 Taliban militants were killed, he said, adding that no Afghan or coalition soldiers were killed or wounded in the firefight.

Kabul - The US-led coalition said on Tuesday that its investigation into allegations of heavy civilian casualties during an air raid in western Afghanistan on August 22 had found that 30-35 militants and up to seven civilians were killed in the attack.

The finding contradicts an investigation by an Afghan government team, which said that 90 civilians, including 60 children, were killed in the US military airstrike in Azizabad village in Shindand district of Herat province.

Kabul  - Six people, including two civilians, were killed in roadside bomb attacks and a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday.

Two policemen were killed and four others wounded in a roadside bomb blast in the south-eastern province of Khost on Tuesday morning, said Wazir Padshah, spokesman for the provincial police chief.

He said a police patrol vehicle hit a mine in the Darouqa area of the provincial capital, also called Khost.

Kabul  - Six people, including two civilians, were killed in roadside bomb attacks and a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday.

Two policemen were killed and four others wounded in a roadside bomb blast in the south-eastern province of Khost on Tuesday morning, said Wazir Padshah, spokesman for the provincial police chief.

He said a police patrol vehicle hit a mine in the Darouqa area of the provincial capital, also called Khost.

Another roadside bomb in Spin Boldak district of southern Kandahar province on Tuesday killed a road construction worker and wounded another, Abdul Razek Khan, a police border commander, said.

Kabul- A suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden vehicle near a convoy of NATO-led German soldiers in northern Afghanistan on Monday, killing himself and a civilian, but causing no casualties among the soldiers, police said.

The bomber detonated the explosives before reaching a convoy of German soldiers on the Shirkhan Bandar road, north of Kunduz city, in the province of the same name, on Monday morning, Abdul Rahman Aqtash, security chief of the provincial police department, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

Kabul - Hundreds of Afghan demonstrators took to the streets on Monday in Kabul, accusing US military forces of killing a man and his two children in a raid earlier that day, witnesses said.

The protesters, who were chanting anti-US military and anti-Afghan government slogans, blocked a road in Hudkhail, an area in the eastern outskirts of the Afghan capital, where several military bases of the NATO-led international forces are located.