ISLAMABAD: Gunmen attacked trucks carrying supplies to Nato forces in Afghanistan, gutting several dozen vehicles in an inferno and killing seven people in a brazen assault near Islamabad, police said Wednesday.

Seven US, one French and two Australian soldiers were killed on June 7, 2010, in separate militant attacks in Afghanistan.

KABUL (Agencies) – Ten NATO soldiers, including at least one American, were killed on Monday in shooting and bomb attacks in war-torn southern Afghanistan, the NATO said late on Monday.

Afghanistan’s interior minister and the head of the intelligence service have resigned over Wednesday’s attack on a peace conference.

Afghan political and religious leaders have called for the start of a peace process to end conflict with the Taliban, offering the country’s president a mandate to open negotiations with the group.

More than 118 people have been killed after a fire engulfed several buildings in the centre of Dhaka, the Bangladeshi capital, according to government officials.

Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has opened a three-day peace conference in the capital, Kabul, amid rocket fire and at least one suicide bombing.

The US government has said that it killed Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, an Egyptian man described as al-Qaeda’s “number three” official.

A roadside bomb has killed seven police officers and injured another in Badakhshan, a remote northeastern province of Afghanistan, officials say.

Bangladesh has blocked social networking website Facebook over caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad and “obnoxious” images of the Muslim-majority country’s leaders, officials say.