Kabul - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in Kabul on Monday that his country was allowing cargo supplies for NATO forces in Afghanistan through its territory to cooperate with the stabilization of the war-torn country.

Lavrov arrived in Kabul on Monday on a one-day trip to meet with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, his Afghan counterpart, Rangin Dadfar Spanta and other Afghan leaders including members of the parliament.

Kabul  - A suicide bomber dressed in police uniform detonated his explosives-filled vest Monday in front of a police station in southern Afghanistan, killing at least eight people and wounding several others, a government spokesman said.

The bomber tried to enter the provincial police headquarters in Lashkargah, the capital of Helmand province, but was stopped by security guards, said Daoud Ahmadi, spokesman for Helmand's governor.

Kabul  - Two British soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan, bringing the total number of foreign soldiers killed in the country over the weekend to nine, the British military said Monday.

The soldiers were were part of British forces stationed in Helmand province with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the British Defence Ministry said in a statement.

The incident took place in the Garmsir district as the soldiers were conducting patrols in the area, the ministry said.

Kabul  - A suicide bomber detonated an explosive-packed vehicle near a convoy of foreign forces in the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday afternoon, killing two civilians and wounding 14 others, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.

The attack, which took place in Qala Kashif, an area in the western outskirts of Kabul, caused no casualties among the foreign military personnel, Zemarai Bashary, spokesman for the Interior Ministry said.

Kabul  - One NATO soldier, two Afghan police, five Taliban militants and a civilian were killed in a series of clashes in southern and eastern Afghanistan, officials said Sunday.

A roadside bomb targeting Kandahar city's mayor killed one bystander and wounded six other civilians on Sunday morning, Abdul Khaliq, a senior police official in the province, said.

The bomb in a push-barrow damaged the mayor's vehicle, but he escaped unharmed.

Kabul, Mar. 15 : Taliban leader Mullah Omar has given his approval for talks aimed at ending the war in Afghanistan and has allowed his representatives to attend Saudi-sponsored peace negotiations.

“Mullah Omar has given the green light to talks,” said one of the mediators, Abdullah Anas, a former friend of Osama Bin Laden who used to fight in Afghanistan but now lives in London.

The breakthrough emerged after President Barack Obama admitted that US-led forces are not winning the war in Afghanistan and called for negotiations with “moderate Taliban”.