Afghan district captured by Taliban....

The defense ministry said that Afghan commandos had reclaimed the district.

Hundreds of Taliban fighters attacked and briefly seized parts of a district in Afghanistan s remote and mountainous northeast on Wednesday, provincial officials said, with gunfights raging for hours between insurgents and Afghan troops.

Jamuladdin Badr, the governor of Nuristan province near the border with Pakistan, told Reuters the Duab district center had "fallen into the hands of insurgents," but most of it was recaptured within hours by Afghan troops.

suicide bomber hits the Hospital In Afghanistan .....

A suicide bomb attack on a hospital has left six people dead and 23 wounded in the Afghan capital, Kabul.

The bomber detonated his device in a tent in the grounds of Charsad Bestar Hospital where medical students were eating lunch.