The Taliban claim responsibility for a suicide car-bomb attack on a police station in the Afghan capital, Kabul, which the government said killed 14 people and wounded 145.

An Afghan official says that at least six people have been killed in Taliban attack near the Spanish embassy in the capital, Kabul.

Taliban militants have stormed a jail outside the central Afghan city of Ghazni, killing at least four policemen and freeing more than 350 prisoners.

Taliban militants in Afghanistan kill at least 11 Afghan soldiers in an ambush in western Herat province.

Gunmen have killed 20 construction workers in Pakistan's restive southwestern province of Baluchistan, shooting them at point blank range.

30 militants allied to the Pakistani Taliban have been killed by Pakistani jet fighters in a missile attack in the mountainous northwestern of Khyber.