Afghan Violence

• Seven dead in attack on Afghan police building: official

  Seven people were killed on Sunday in a suicide car bomb attack on police headquarters in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, a bastion of Taliban militancy, the interior ministry said. Three policemen and four civilians died in the blast in the car park, the ministry said in a statement, while nine other people were injured.

• Four French soldiers killed in Afghanistan

  France is suspending all training operations for Afghan troops and threatening to pull its entire force out of Afghanistan early after an Afghan soldier shot and killed four French soldiers on Friday.

• Roadside bomb kills four civilians in Afghanistan

  A roadside bomb killed four civilians in Afghanistan's southern province of Uruzgan today, the provincial head of the crime investigation unit said.