BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Six members of a U.S.-backed neighborhood patrol and a civilian were killed in an attack by a female suicide bomber in northeast Iraq on Thursday, police said.

KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan soldiers killed “dozens” of militants, including foreigners, in a clash on a highway in southern Zabul province on Thursday, the defence ministry said.

KABUL (Reuters) – The once media-shy Taliban have gone hi-tech with DVDs, mobile phone messages, ring-tones, emails and a website to publicize their exploits and lambast their Afghan and Western enemies, a think-tank said on Thursday.