Warsaw - Three Polish soldiers were killed in a mine explosion in Afghanistan, a military spokesman told Polish television TVN24 on Wednesday.

Kabul - Afghan and US-led coalition forces killed more than 20 militants, including foreign fighters, in two incidents in south-eastern Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday.

Taliban militants attacked construction company workers Wednesday in the Alishir district of Khost province, provincial Governor Arsala Jamal said.

"Ten Taliban militants were killed when Afghan and US military forces arrived at the scene and clashed with the attackers," he said.

Kabul - French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in Kabul on Wednesday to visit his country's troops and meet with his Afghan counterpart, a day after 10 French soldiers were killed and 21 were wounded in a Taliban attack.

Sarkozy visited French troops in Camp Warehouse on the eastern outskirts of Kabul Wednesday morning and paid his respects to the dead soldiers, a diplomatic source who declined to be named said.

Bamiyan (Afghanistan), Aug. 20: The resignation of President Pervez Musharraf on Monday has created a major political vacuum in Pakistan, and this, according to the New York Times, is escalating the war in neighboring Afghanistan

According to the paper, Taliban insurgents have mounted their most serious attacks in six years of fighting in Afghanistan over the last two days, including a coordinated assault by at least 10 suicide bombers against one of the largest American military bases in the country, and another by about 100 insurgents who killed 10 elite French paratroopers.

Kabul, Aug. 19: Australian troops have killed a Taliban warlord who waged a campaign of intimidation and violence in Afghanistan's Oruzgan province.

Mullah Akhtar Mohammed and his armed protection party were spotted in a remote area of Oruzgan last week and were killed with an air strike.

The special operations task group (SOTG) patrol kept watch and, after confirming there were no non-combatants in the area, called in the attack jets, defence spokesman Brigadier Brian Dawson said.

News. com .au quoted sources as saying that Akhtar was a senior Taliban extremist commander who controlled a large force of insurgents and directed attacks on government facilities.

Auckland, Aug. 19 (ANI): Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd believes that the exit of Pervez Musharraf from the Pakistan presidency could pose problems for NATO operations in neighbouring Afghanistan.

Speaking in Auckland today ahead of the Pacific Island Forum in Nuie, Rudd said the key consideration for Australia was the affect of the decision would have on the continuing military campaign in Afghanistan.

There are problems in terms of al-Qaida, we have problems in terms of the Taliban, we have problems in terms of the porous nature of the border, news. com. au quoted Rudd, as saying.