Kabul - An Afghan district chief said Monday that a NATO airstrike killed six civilians and wounded more than a dozen others, but the alliance said that "multiple intelligence sources" suggested that four to eight insurgents were killed in the air raid. Zelmai Yousifzai, the district chief of Watapur district in the eastern province of Kunar claimed that six civilians, including two children, one woman and three men, were killed when their house was bombed by an aircraft under NATO command.

Kabul - The United Nations office in Afghanistan Monday condemned the assassination of a woman provincial legislator in southern Afghanistan by Taliban militants. Sitara Achikzai, who was aged in her 50s, was shot dead Sunday afternoon by Taliban fighters riding on motorbikes outside her home in Kandahar city, the capital of Kandahar province.

Kabul - A roadside bomb blast killed four Afghan civilians in the western province of Herat on Monday morning, while a similar attack killed two private security guards in the eastern region, officials said. A truck was blown up by the roadside bomb in the Meyan Band area of Adraskan district of Herat province. It was carrying labourers to a construction project, said Abdul Raouf Ahmadi, spokesman for the western region police.

Kabul, Apr. 13 : US and NATO officials are reportedly under pressure to find alternatives to their beleaguered supply lines in the wake of Sunday's pre-dawn attack by militants on a NATO supply depot in Peshawar.

According to the Christian Science Monitor, the raid was carried out by scores of Pakistani Taliban guerrillas.

Kabul, Apr. 13 : The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the killing of a female politician who championed women''s rights.

Sitara Achakzai was gunned down outside her home in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan, on Sunday.

The Telegraph quoted Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmedi as claiming responsibility for Sunday''s attack.

Four men, who drove up on two motorcycles, shot at Achakzai as she was getting out of her car.

Kabul - Afghan and international forces killed 40 suspected Taliban militants in the latest clashes in southern and eastern Afghanistan, while a suicide bomber killed himself and wounded a civilian in the northern region, officials said Sunday. The police chief of Afghanistan's restive southern Zabul province claimed Sunday that Afghan forces backed by US-led coalition air support killed 22 suspected insurgents in a clash.