Afghanistan will accept a Taliban office in Qatar to help peace talks but no foreign power can get involved in the process without its consent.

A car bomber killed 13 American troops in Kabul on Saturday, the deadliest single ground attack against the Nato-led force in 10 years of war.

The Afghan parliament has agreed to start repaying the central bank for its bailout of Kabulbank with a first instalment of $51-million.

A Taliban suicide bomber on Tuesday killed Burhanuddin Rabbani, former Afghan president and head of the government’s peace council.

Gunmen killed an adviser to Afghan President Hamid Karzai in a gunbattle in Kabul on Sunday, officials said.

At least 10 civilians were killed when suicide bombers and Taliban insurgents attacked a hotel frequented by Westerners in the Afghan capital.

Police fired into the air to disperse thousands of anti-American protesters in Afghanistan’s capital on Wednesday.