Nato Headquarters Kabul

At least six people were killed in a Taliban siege near the Spanish embassy in Kabul's diplomatic quarter that ended on Saturday, the latest insurgent attack in the highly fortified area.

Suicide attackers today targeted foreign troops in Kabul and a police headquarters in restive southern Afghanistan, killing two people and wounding nearly 60, as the Taliban's bloody summer offensive showed no signs of letting up.

A suicide car bomber struck near the headquarters of the European police training mission in Kabul today, killing one Afghan civilian and wounding five others nearby, police and the EUPOL said.

A bomb exploded in central Kabul on Saturday evening in a district housing several embassies and NATO's military headquarters, but no casualties were immediately reported, officials said.

Afghan authorities say a battle with insurgents near Kabul's international airport has ended and all the attackers have been killed.

At least five heavily armed insurgents were engaged in an hours-long gunbattle with security forces near Afghanistan's main airport today after they apparently tried to attack NATO's airport headquarters with rocket-propelled grenades, assault rifles and at least one large bomb, the army and police said.

A female Afghan police officer shot dead a NATO civilian adviser inside Kabul police headquarters on Monday, officials said, in the first "insider" attack by a woman.

A female Afghan police officer on Monday shot and wounded a NATO advisor in Kabul police headquarters, in an apparent "green-on-blue" attack, the first of its kind by a woman, officials said.

NATO is scaling back joint operations with Afghans after an unprecedented number of Western soldiers were shot dead by their local colleagues and as anger erupts over an anti-Islam film, officers said.

An attack on a US military base killed three Afghan intelligence employees and destroyed a NATO helicopter, Afghan and coalition officials said on Tuesday.

A suicide bomber struck outside NATO headquarters in Kabul on Saturday killing six street children. The attack comes a day after the United States moved to blacklist the Haqqani faction as a terrorist organisation.

Anti-US protesters tried to storm a US consulate and march on NATO headquarters in Kabul on Friday as violent demonstrations over the burning of Qurans pushed into a fourth day, killing 24 people.

The Obama administration is pressing Pakistan to help the US fight the Haqqani insurgent network after last week's attacks on the American embassy and NATO headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Afghan forces on Wednesday struggled to dislodge the last of the Taliban fighters who mounted a spectacular assault on Kabul, targeting the US embassy and NATO headquarters with rockets and suicide bombs.

Teams of insurgents firing rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons struck at the U.S. Embassy, NATO headquarters and other buildings in the heart of the Afghan capital Tuesday, raising fresh doubts about the Afghans' ability to secure their nation as U.S. and other foreign troops begin to withdraw.

At least six people were killed in a Taliban siege near the Spanish embassy in Kabul's diplomatic quarter that ended on Saturday, the latest insurgent attack in the highly fortified area.

Suicide attackers today targeted foreign troops in Kabul and a police headquarters in restive southern Afghanistan, killing two people and wounding nearly 60, as the Taliban's bloody summer offensive showed no signs of letting up.

A suicide car bomber struck near the headquarters of the European police training mission in Kabul today, killing one Afghan civilian and wounding five others nearby, police and the EUPOL said.

A bomb exploded in central Kabul on Saturday evening in a district housing several embassies and NATO's military headquarters, but no casualties were immediately reported, officials said.

Afghan authorities say a battle with insurgents near Kabul's international airport has ended and all the attackers have been killed.

At least five heavily armed insurgents were engaged in an hours-long gunbattle with security forces near Afghanistan's main airport today after they apparently tried to attack NATO's airport headquarters with rocket-propelled grenades, assault rifles and at least one large bomb, the army and police said.

A female Afghan police officer shot dead a NATO civilian adviser inside Kabul police headquarters on Monday, officials said, in the first "insider" attack by a woman.

A female Afghan police officer on Monday shot and wounded a NATO advisor in Kabul police headquarters, in an apparent "green-on-blue" attack, the first of its kind by a woman, officials said.

NATO is scaling back joint operations with Afghans after an unprecedented number of Western soldiers were shot dead by their local colleagues and as anger erupts over an anti-Islam film, officers said.

An attack on a US military base killed three Afghan intelligence employees and destroyed a NATO helicopter, Afghan and coalition officials said on Tuesday.

A suicide bomber struck outside NATO headquarters in Kabul on Saturday killing six street children. The attack comes a day after the United States moved to blacklist the Haqqani faction as a terrorist organisation.

Anti-US protesters tried to storm a US consulate and march on NATO headquarters in Kabul on Friday as violent demonstrations over the burning of Qurans pushed into a fourth day, killing 24 people.

The Obama administration is pressing Pakistan to help the US fight the Haqqani insurgent network after last week's attacks on the American embassy and NATO headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Afghan forces on Wednesday struggled to dislodge the last of the Taliban fighters who mounted a spectacular assault on Kabul, targeting the US embassy and NATO headquarters with rockets and suicide bombs.

Teams of insurgents firing rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons struck at the U.S. Embassy, NATO headquarters and other buildings in the heart of the Afghan capital Tuesday, raising fresh doubts about the Afghans' ability to secure their nation as U.S. and other foreign troops begin to withdraw.