A suicide car bomber attacked a NATO airbase in southern Afghanistan just hours after the US Defence Secretary left Thursday, killing two civilians, wounding 15 and injuring four foreign soldiers, police said.

A suicide car bomb exploded near a NATO airbase in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing two civilians, wounding 15 others and injuring four foreign soldiers, police said.

The leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan said they made progress in Turkey-mediated talks on Wednesday, aimed partly at calming tensions following an assassination attempt on an Afghan spy chief that Kabul said was planned in Pakistan.

Gunmen assassinated an Afghan women's affairs official on Monday just months after her predecessor was blown up by a bomb, police said.

Suicide bombers attacked a Pakistani police station on Monday, killing six people in the outskirts of northwestern town Bannu near the militant stronghold of North Waziristan, officials said.

A US special forces commando was killed during a mission in Afghanistan that succeeded in rescuing a kidnapped American doctor, the White House said Sunday.

US soldiers killed seven Taliban insurgents in a successful pre-dawn raid to rescue a kidnapped American doctor in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, the NATO force in the war-torn country said.

US troops rescued a kidnapped American doctor during an operation against Taliban insurgents in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, the NATO force in the war-torn country said.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Saturday a suicide attack that wounded the country's spy chief was planned in neighbouring Pakistan, and added he would raise the issue with Islamabad.

Afghanistan's intelligence chief was wounded in an assassination attempt by a fake Taliban peace envoy Thursday, just months after he took office, as Kabul grapples with the impending departure of NATO combat troops.

Afghanistan's head of intelligence was wounded in an assassination attempt claimed by the Taliban on Thursday just months after he took office as Kabul seeks to navigate the impending departure of NATO combat troops.

A roadside bomb in the Kenyan capital wounded at least eight people, the latest in a string of attacks, police said Wednesday.

Pakistan's top judge said Wednesday he was determined to pursue the government over killings and disappearances in one of the most troubled parts of the country, accusing the authorities of inaction.

A suicide bomber on Tuesday rammed his explosive-laden car into a checkpoint outside a police station in northwestern Pakistan, wounding six people, police said.

Taliban suicide attackers struck at a NATO base on an Afghan city airport at dawn on Sunday, killing five people and wounding several foreign troops in a two-hour battle, officials said.

The number of people killed in attacks in Iraq rose in November compared with October, many of them dying in the last few days of the month, figures compiled by the government and AFP showed.

Bombs mainly targeting Shiite Muslims and security forces in Iraq killed 45 people and wounded 205 others on Thursday in the deadliest day of violence to hit the country in more than two months.

A prominent Pakistani warlord who sends men to fight US and NATO troops in Afghanistan was wounded in a suicide attack on Thursday that killed five people and wounded 10 others, officials said.

Bombs targeting Shiite Muslims and security forces in Iraq on Thursday killed 38 people and wounded 107 others in the deadliest day of violence to hit the country in more than two months.

Bombs targeting Shiite Muslims in areas south of Baghdad on Thursday killed 31 people and wounded 98, security and medical officials said.