A suicide attack in southeastern Afghanistan killed six guards working for a road construction company, as nearly 50 Taliban insurgents and one NATO soldier were killed elsewhere, officials said Friday.

A suicide attack in southeastern Afghanistan killed six guards working for a road construction company, while at least 30 Taliban insurgents and one NATO soldier were killed elsewhere, officials said.

A suicide attack in southeastern Afghanistan killed six guards working for a road construction company, while NATO forces killed 15 Taliban insurgents elsewhere, officials said.

As Afghans await the results of a bitterly contested election, their country is caught in a complex guessing game about who will be their next president and how solid his mandate will be.

As the results in Afghanistan's bitterly contested election trickle out, Afghans are caught in a complex guessing game about who will be their next president and how solid his mandate will be.

A roadside bomb blast killed four US soldiers in Afghanistan on Tuesday, making 2009 the deadliest year recorded for foreign troops in the country since the US-led invasion ousted the Taliban in 2001.

The number of foreign soldiers killed in Afghanistan this year surpassed that for all of 2008 on Tuesday with the deaths of four US military personnel in a bomb blast in the country's south.

A roadside bomb tore through a car carrying civilians in eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border, killing four passengers and wounding five others, the government announced Tuesday.

More registered than eligible voters: Observers see pattern of fraud before Afghan election. Voting observers expect fraud during next week's Afghan presidential election and warn that cheating will most likely take place at polling stations in remote or dangerous areas where independent monitors won't be able to be present.

Army Pfc. Justin A. Casillas

KABUL (Reuters) - Almost half of Afghanistan is at a high risk of attack by the Taliban and other insurgents or is under "enemy control," a secret Afghan government map shows, painting a dire security picture before presidential elections.

Afghan officials hide, or quit, because of increasing Taliban assassination attacks. During his two years as a provincial governor in Afghanistan, Arsalah Jamal survived four suicide attacks.

KHOST, Afghanistan (Reuters) - At least eight people were killed when Taliban guerrillas, including waves of suicide bombers, attacked government buildings in a town in eastern Afghanistan Tuesday, residents and officials said.

Taliban suicide bombers, most of them disguised as women, tried to storm government buildings and a military base in two Afghan cities on Tuesday, killing five people, officials said.

Taliban suicide bombers, most of them disguised as women, tried to storm government buildings and a military base in two Afghan cities on Tuesday, killing five people, officials said.

Taliban suicide bombers, most of them disguised in burkas, tried to storm government buildings and a military base in two Afghan cities on Tuesday, killing six people, officials said.

Taliban suicide bombers, most of them disguised in burkas, tried to storm government buildings and a military base in two Afghan cities on Tuesday, killing six people, officials said.

Taliban suicide bombers dressed in burkas tried to storm government buildings and a military base in two cities in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing up to six people, officials said.

Taliban suicide bombers, mostly in burkas, tried to storm government buildings and a military base in two cities in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing up to six people, officials said.

Taliban suicide bombers dressed in burkas tried to storm government buildings and a military base in two cities in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing up to six people, officials said.