Two bomb blasts hit Afghanistan

Five people including a policeman were killed and 14 others wounded Friday in a suicide car bomb attack on a police post in Khost, eastern Afghanistan, police said."The attacker used a Toyota van to attack a police post in Khost city," local police chief Abdul Hakim Eshaqzai told AFP."Among the dead is one police officer and four adult civilians and among the injured there are two police officers, two women and 10 other male adults."Eshaqzai added: "This is an act of terror and is done by the enemies of the people and government of Afghanistan."

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Militants killed six Americans, including a young female diplomat, and an Afghan doctor in a pair of attacks in Afghanistan on Saturday. It was the deadliest day for the United States in the war in eight months.

A suicide bomber on a bicycle killed nine people outside the defence ministry in central Kabul on Saturday during a visit to the Afghan capital by new US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.

Eight people including a policeman were killed and 30 others were wounded Friday in a Taliban suicide car bomb attack on police headquarters in a city in eastern Afghanistan, police said.The incident in Khost is the latest to target Afghan police who, with the country's army, are due to take control of security from international troops by 2014."The most recent toll that I have received from the explosion site and hospitals is eight dead and 30 people injured including women and children," local police chief Abdul Hakim Eshaqzai told AFP.

Five people including a policeman were killed and 14 others wounded Friday in a suicide car bomb attack on a police post in Khost, eastern Afghanistan, police said.The incident, which was blamed on the Taliban, is the latest to target Afghan police who, with the country's army, are due to take control of security from international troops by 2014."The attacker used a Toyota van to attack a police post in Khost city," local police chief Abdul Hakim Eshaqzai told AFP.

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday accused the Taliban and the U.S. of working in concert to convince Afghans that violence will worsen if most foreign troops leave – an allegation the top American commander in Afghanistan rejected as “categorically false.”

A bomb attack near a mosque and an Islamist militant base in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt near the Afghan border killed at least 10 people on Thursday, security officials said.The nature of the attack was not immediately clear, but intelligence officials suggested it could have been one Islamist militant group attacking another in Khyber which straddles the NATO supply line into Afghanistan."Ten people have been killed and dozens of others are injured in the bomb blast outside the mosque," a senior intelligence official in Peshawar told AFP.

Taliban militants kidnapped 21 tribal elders in Afghanistan close to the Pakistani border whose relatives apparently work for the Afghan government and NATO, an official said Monday.The incident happened eight days ago in Marawara, in the eastern province of Kunar, which borders Pakistan's lawless tribal district where Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked networks have carved out strongholds.