Recent high profile suicide bombings in Afghanistan include an attack on an American military base that coincided with a visit by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney. The bombings continue a trend that began in 2006 when suicide attacks in Afghanistan increased fivefold over the previous year. VOA's Peter Fedynsky reports that al-Qaida terrorists and Afghanistan's ousted Taleban rulers are claiming credit for the recent attacks.

NATO says Afghan forces have captured a Taliban leader who was trying to flee a security operation by disguising himself in a woman's all-encompassing burqa.

Some 20 Afghan civilians have died since March 4 as a result of attacks from U.S. and NATO forces, and this is provoking anger in Afghanistan.

Hundreds of Afghan students have rallied in the eastern city of Jalalabad to demand the withdrawal of foreign troops after two incidents claimed civilian lives, RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan reported.

Afghan officials said today that a NATO air strike overnight killed nine civilians in Kapisa Province, north of Kabul.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai today condemned the deaths of 10 civilians in a clash between U.S. troops and insurgents near the eastern city of Jalalabad.

Coalition troops in Afghanistan have killed three suspected Taliban militants in a clash in southern Zabul Province.

A suicide bomber today attacked the front gates of Bagram Air Field, where U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney was visiting, RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan reported.

A suicide bomber killed 40 people outside a Baghdad business college yesterday. Reports say most of the victims were students. Dozens of others were wounded.

NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer is in Afghanistan for talks with President Hamid Karzai.

About 300 Taliban fighters today seized the remote Bakwa district of Afghanistan's western Farah Province, RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan reported.

U.S. President George W. Bush said more U.S. troops will go to Afghanistan to help counter an expected spring offensive by Taliban fighters.