Taliban insurgents raided two police posts and a district government office in eastern Afghanistan today, killing two policemen and wounding five.
The attacks in the eastern province of Paktia, near the Pakistani border, were the latest in an intensified Taliban insurgency in which hundreds of people have been killed this year.
The deputy chief of police in Paktia said some of the Taliban attackers were killed in the fighting that followed the raid, but he did not know how many.
The Taliban, fighting to oust foreign forces and defeat Afghanistan's elected government, were ousted in late 2001 after refusing to hand over Osama bin Laden.
Nearly five years later, violence in parts of Afghanistan is the worst it has been since the end of Taliban rule.