Gunmen abducted a French aid worker in the Afghan capital Monday and shot dead an Afghan man who tried to rescue him, the Kabul government said, in the latest of a series of attacks on foreigners here.

The abducted man was education specialist Dany Egreteau, 32, from Paris-based human rights group Solidarite Laique, who had arrived in Afghanistan on a visit a week ago, the group said.

Gunmen abducted a French aid worker in the Afghan capital Monday and shot dead an Afghan man who tried to rescue him, the Kabul government said, in the latest of a series of attacks on foreigners here.

The French aid worker kidnapped on Monday in the Afghan capital Kabul is Dany Egreteau, 32, an education specialist on his first visit to the country, his employer said Monday.

`Normally, he`s based in Colombo, and he`s the head of our education mission to Afghanistan, India and Sri Lanka,` said a spokesman for the French humanitarian organisation for whom Egreteau works.

Gunmen abducted a French aid worker in the Afghan capital Monday and shot dead an Afghan man who tried to rescue him, the Kabul government said, in the latest of a series of attacks on foreigners here.

Gunmen abducted a French aid worker in the Afghan capital Monday and shot dead an Afghan man who tried to rescue him, the Kabul government said, in the latest of a series of attacks on foreigners here.

Unidentified gunmen abducted a Western aid worker in a street in the Afghan capital Monday and shot dead an Afghan who tried to rescue him, the government said.

The man was walking in a suburb of Kabul when he was snatched by three armed men, interior ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashari told AFP.

A suicide bomb exploded during a meeting in the information and culture ministry in the Afghan capital Thursday, killing at least five people and wounding several more, police said.

A suicide attack inside a government ministry conference room in the Afghan capital Kabul Thursday killed at least five people and wounded several others, police said.

`There was an explosion inside the press conference room of the ministry of information and culture,` deputy Kabul police chief Alishah Ahmadzai told AFP.

A bomb, apparently caused by a suicide attacker, exploded during a meeting in a government building in the Afghan capital Thursday, killing at least one person and wounding a dozen, officials said.

The bomb exploded inside a conference room of the ministry of information and culture as a meeting was under way, Kabul deputy police chief Alishah Ahmadzai told AFP.

A suicide bomb exploded near the information and culture ministry in the centre of the Afghan capital Thursday, causing an unknown number of casualties, officials said.

`It was a suicide bomber and there are casualties. Our ambulances are busy but the number is unclear,` health ministry spokesman Abdullah Fahim told AFP.

KABUL, Oct 26, 2008 (AFP) - Investigations show the killing of a South African and a Briton may have been 'terror attack' although the guard who killed them also strongly disliked the men, the Afghan government said Monday.

A Briton and a South African shot dead in Kabul were killed by one of their own guards who then committed suicide, interior ministry officials said Sunday.

The Westerners -- the head and deputy head of the Afghanistan branch of international shipping company DHL -- were killed early Saturday as their vehicle pulled up outside their office in the city centre.

KABUL, Oct 26, 2008 (AFP) - The gunning down of three Westerners in the Afghan capital in less than a week is a sharp reminder that Kabul is no longer a safe haven in a country gripped by violence, expatriates say.

KABUL, Oct 25, 2008 (AFP) - Two foreigners killed in a shootout in Kabul Saturday were a British and a South African national, the British embassy told AFP.

The two men were killed along with an Afghan in an exchange of fire in the city centre outside the offices of international courier company DHL, for which they worked.

BERLIN, Oct 25, 2008 (AFP) - Two foreigners killed in a shoot-out in central Kabul Saturday worked for the international courier company DHL, a spokesman for the German post office, which owns DHL, said.

'The two victims were DHL employees. They were not German,' the spokesman told AFP. He was unable to give their nationalities or say what job they did.

An aid worker with British and South African nationality was shot dead in the Afghan capital on Monday in a killing claimed by the Islamic Taliban which accused her group of `preaching Christianity.`

A British aid worker was shot dead in the Afghan capital on Monday in a killing claimed by the Islamic Taliban militia which accused her organisation of `preaching Christianity.`

The woman was shot several times by two men on a motorbike as she walked to work in the west of Kabul, the interior ministry and police told AFP.

A female aid worker shot dead in the Afghan capital Monday was a British national, the British embassy in Kabul said.

`We are confirming that we are dealing with the death of a British national,` an embassy spokeswoman told AFP.

Afghan officials had said earlier that the woman was a South African national. The killing was claimed by Taliban insurgents.

A spokesman for Afghanistan`s insurgent Taliban told AFP his militia had killed a Western woman in Kabul on Monday because she worked for a group `which was preaching Christianity.`

The woman, whom Afghan officials said was a South African national, was working for the nongovernmental group SERVE, which calls itself a Christian charity.

A Western woman working for a Christian nongovernment group helping disabled Afghans was shot dead in Kabul as she walked to work early Monday, officials and the group said.

The nationality of the woman was not immediately clear but she may have been South African, interior ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary and police said.

A Western woman was shot dead in the Afghan capital Kabul early Monday by two men on motorbikes, the Afghan interior ministry told AFP.

The nationality of the woman, shot dead as she was going to work in the west of the city, was not immediately clear, ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary said.

KABUL, Sept 24, 2008 (AFP) - Two Kabul policemen were killed and their commander wounded Wednesday in a bomb blast at a city police post where an overnight ambush had killed three of their colleagues, the Afghan government said.

KABUL, September 9, 2008 (AFP) - Two rockets hit central Kabul early Tuesday, landing in an area near the main NATO base and presidential palace but causing no casualties or damage, Afghanistan's interior ministry said.

KABUL, August 28, 2008 (AFP) - The Afghan army Thursday took over extra responsibilities for security in the capital from NATO-led forces, but authorities kept the details under wraps on the largely symbolic move.

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KABUL, August 5, 2008 (AFP) - France took command Tuesday of about 5,000 NATO-led soldiers deployed in Kabul and surrounding areas with the aim of handing over to Afghan forces within a year, a French general told AFP.

KABUL, August 3, 2008 (AFP) - A bomb struck an international military convoy in Kabul Sunday, killing one soldier and wounding another, the US-led coalition said.

'A coalition service member was killed and another wounded when their convoy struck an IED (improvised explosive device) this morning in Kabul,' the force said in a statement.

KABUL, July 22, 2008 (AFP) - A suicide bomber blew himself up near the Afghan capital's landmark and ancient Babur's Gardens early Tuesday, wounding five civilians, the interior ministry said.

The bomber detonated explosives attached to his body after being identified by police manning a security checkpost, the ministry said in a statement.

KABUL, July 22, 2008 (AFP) - A suicide bomber blew himself near Kabul's landmark and ancient Babur's Gardens early Tuesday, wounding three civilians, the interior ministry said.

The attacker had climbed out of his car and detonated explosives attached to his body near a security checkpost, interior ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary told AFP.

TOYAKO, July 7, 2008 (AFP) - The White House on Monday denounced the suicide bomb attack on India's embassy in the Afghan capital Kabul, which officials said killed more than 40 people.

KABUL, July 7, 2008 (AFP) - A suicide bombing outside the Indian embassy in the Afghan capital Monday killed more than 40 people, many of them civilians waiting to collect visas, an interior ministry spokesman told reporters.

KABUL, July 7, 2008 (AFP) - A suicide bombing outside the Indian embassy in the Afghan capital killed at least 28 people and wounded 141 others, a health ministry spokesman told AFP.

KABUL, July 7, 2008 (AFP) - A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-filled car into the gates of the Indian embassy in the Afghan capital Kabul Monday, leaving at least seven people dead, officials and a witness said.

KABUL, July 7, 2008 (AFP) - A suicide bombing outside the Indian embassy in the Afghan capital killed at least seven people and wounded around 19, a health ministry spokesman told AFP.

'The Kabul ambulance services alone evacuated seven dead and 19 wounded, but this is not the final figure,' health ministry spokesman Abdullah Fahim told AFP.