An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) explosion ripped through a vehicle in northern Balkh province of Afghanistan which killed at least seven militants.

Six commuters, all civilians were injured, some in critical conditions as their car ran over a mine in the western Badghis province on Monday, deputy to provincial police chief Shir Agha Alkozai said.

Two American soldiers were killed in southern Afghanistan on Saturday when a Taliban roadside bomb ripped through an army vehicle, officials said.

At least 10 Kenyan police officers have been killed after an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) planted by militants struck their vehicle near the Somali border.

At least four children were killed and five others were wounded in an explosion triggered by an improvised explosive device in northern Faryab province.

At least two civilians were killed, following a roadside mine blast in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province on Sunday, an official said.

Eight Afghan police have been killed in two separate incidents in southern Zabul province, an official said Monday.

Police chief of Muqur district in Afghanistan's northwestern province of Badghis has been killed in a roadside bomb blast, officials said Wednesday.