A bomb planted on a road in Kabul has blown up a civilian vehicle, killing its four Afghan passengers. The bomb was remotely detonated and exploded as the vehicle passed in the south-eastern outskirts of the city, city police chief General Zalmai Uriakhail said.

The U.S. military in Afghanistan says 15 militants along with an Afghan woman and two children were killed during a battle with insurgents in the south.

Afghans have begun three days of national mourning for 41 people, made up mostly of children as well as six MPs, killed in the country's worst suicide attack.

A teenager was hanged by Taliban militants for having the U.S. money. Five US$1 bills were staffed in his mouth as a warning to other villagers not to use dollars, police said Monday. Taliban militants elsewhere killed eight police.

South Korea's intelligence chief has refused to deny that his government paid a ransom to the Taleban to release 19 hostages last week.

Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces say they have killed nearly three dozen militants in clashes in southern Afghanistan. The U.S. military said in a statement today that nearly two dozen militants were killed in two separate clashes in Kandahar Province on September 4.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned recent deadly attacks in Afghanistan, saying the bloodshed reflects an "inexcusable disregard for the value of human life."

NATO says a landmine blast in eastern Afghanistan has killed one NATO solider and wounded four others. A statement says the bomb went off Thursday near a vehicle carrying NATO troops. The nationality of the troops was not given.

The US-led coalition in Afghanistan says seven children have been killed in an air strike on a suspected Al Qaeda safe house in eastern Afghanistan that also left several militants dead.

The International Committee of the Red Cross says security in Afghanistan has deteriorated over the last year, with civilians bearing the brunt of a rise in violence between international forces and insurgents.

The U.S. military says coalition forces and Afghan police backed by coalition warplanes killed more than 20 suspected Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan.

An Afghan radio journalist has been shot dead in Afghanistan in the second fatal attack on a newswoman in less than a week. Zakia Zaki, who ran the private broadcaster Peace Radio, was killed by multiple gunmen in her home north of Kabul, in the central province of Parwan, late on June 5. The gunmen reportedly shot her in front of her 8-year-old son, before fleeing the scene.