Kabul - A suicide car bomb attack outside the main US base in Afghanistan on Wednesday injured three civilians, the military said in a statement.

The attack took place near an entry checkpoint of Bagram airfield, north of Kabul city, the biggest US military base in the country, wounding three civilian contractors, the US military said in statement, but did not disclose the nationalities of the victims.

Kabul- Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission said Wednesday that the presidential election should be held in August despite President Hamid Karzai's decree that called for polls to be brought forward to April.

The commission said it would be unable to hold the voting next month because of security and logistical problems.

Kabul - Three Canadian soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb blast in southern Afghanistan, NATO said Wednesday.

The soldiers, part of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), were killed Tuesday when their vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb in the Arghandab district of Kandahar province, a NATO spokesman said.

The Canadian military said two other soldiers were injured during a patrol north-west of Kandahar city and were in good and fair condition after being evacuated to hospital.

Kabul - A trainer and three members of an Afghan youth football team who were training for an upcoming regional competition have disappeared from their hotel in Germany, officials said Tuesday.

The 18 players of the national under-18 team, two trainers and two government officials had gone to the south-western German city of Stuttgart February 8 for two weeks of training to prepare for a regional competition to be held in Iran later this year.

Kabul  - Afghan civilians will bear the brunt of a massive US expansion of forces in the country, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) warned on Monday.

US President Barack Obama has announced the deployment of some 17,000 extra troops for Afghanistan, to top up more than 70,000 international forces already stationed in the war-wracked country.

Afghan civilians "will bear the brunt of the announced escalation and that the consequences for many will be dire in the extreme," Pierre Krahenbuhl, director of operations for the ICRC told reporters.

He called on all sides in Afghanistan do more to protect the local population.

New Delhi, Mar. 1 : If the Indo-US civil nuclear deal has strained New Delhi''s relation with Tehran, It is the Obama regime in Washington which can bring the two civilisational friends together once again.

As Obama shifts the entire focus of its war on terror to the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, a part of the new strategy will be to involve neighboring Iran in solving the morass.

Officials of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) believe that Washington knows that New Delhi shares an excellent relation with Iran, and therefore, it could ask the Indian Government to use its influence to pursue Iran to cooperate and end its uranium enrichment exercise.