Unknown gunmen killed a policeman on Tuesday and injured another two in eastern Baghdad, a security source said.

A group of unknown gunmen abducted a French aid worker Monday in the Afghan capital, Kabul, and shot dead an Afghan driver who tried to rescue him, police said.

Troops found and destroyed 40 tons of hashish in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar Monday, according to military sources.

The troops, consisting of Afghan soldiers and US-led coalition troops,
discovered the drugs in a laboratory while searching for militants. The
laboratory was also destroyed, reported US military sources.

A group of unknown gunmen abducted a French national in the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday and shot dead an Afghan driver who tried to rescue him, police said.

The man was on foot in the Kart-e-Parwan locality of Kabul city, when a group of three gunmen snatched him and took him to an unknown location by car, a senior police official in Kabul, who did not want to be named, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

Dhaka on Saturday made a formal request to the United Nations for assistance to rescue two Bangladeshi development workers abducted in war-torn Afghanistan last month.

Dhaka on Saturday made a formal request to the United Nations for assistance to rescue two Bangladeshi development workers abducted in war-torn Afghanistan last month.

A British commander of reservist Special Air Service (SAS) troops in Afghanistan has resigned in protest over what he has called the "chronic underinvestment" in protective military equipment for use in Afghanistan, the Daily Telegraph reported on Saturday.

Two army soldiers were killed in a roadside attack in southern Afghanistan, while 25 Taliban fighters including a female militant were killed in fight with Afghan and coalition forces elsewhere in the country, officials said Saturday.