According to police sources, a loud explosion was heard in the Afghan capital Kabul's diplomatic area near the US Embassy. No other details were immediately available.
A 14-year-old suicide bomber detonated explosives near the heavily barricaded NATO headquarters in Kabul on Saturday, killing six civilians including children, NATO and local officials said.
A suicide bomber blew himself up at a Defence Ministry gate in Kabul killing nine civilians during a visit to Afghanistan by US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, underlining the insurgent threat as NATO troops prepare to leave.
Taliban militants launched a coordinated attack on a UN compound in the center of the Afghan capital, Kabul, today setting off explosions and battling the security forces.
Gunmen launched multiple attacks in the Afghan capital Kabul, assaulting Western embassies in the heavily guarded, central diplomatic area and at the parliament in the west.
A man Afghan officials say is a member of the Taliban shot dead a woman accused of adultery in front of a crowd near Kabul, a video showed, a sign that the austere Islamist group dictates law even near the Afghan capital.
A suicide car bomber killed 13 American troops in the Afghan capital Kabul, the deadliest single ground attack against the NATO-led force in 10 years of war in Afghanistan.
A suicide bomber attacked a Shi'ite Muslim shrine in Kabul today killing at least 54 people in unprecedented sectarian violence a day after Afghanistan's Western allies pledged long-term support once their troops leave.
A marathon siege in Kabul's diplomatic enclave ended with the death of the last two of a group of gunmen who had held off Western and Afghan security forces for nearly 20 hours, showering rockets on Western embassies in a dramatic show of insurgent strength.
The head of Afghanistan's High Peace Council, former President Burhanuddin Rabbani, who had been tasked with trying to negotiate a political end to the war, was killed at his home, a senior police officer said.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will discuss possible peace talks and the handover of security to Afghan forces when she meets Afghan President Hamid Karzai and other key leaders in Kabul tomorrow.
Afghan police sifted through one of Kabul's landmark hotels room by room for any more casualties, securing the building after an overnight assault by Taliban suicide bombers killed eight Afghan civilians and police and a foreigner.
Five Taliban attackers laid siege to a British cultural center in the Afghan capital today, killing at least nine people during an hours-long assault on the 92nd anniversary of Afghanistan's independence from British rule.
Taliban suicide fighters launched a multi-pronged attack in Kabul today, firing rockets toward the US and other embassies in central Kabul, and sending two suicide bombers to the city's West later in the afternoon.
A father desperately searches for his son, who has been sent on a suicide bomb mission. After losing everything, he ends up homeless and insane on the dusty streets of Kabul.