Three people, including a member of provincial council from the eastern Logar province, were killed and another one was injured in a shooting attack in the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday, the police said.

Twenty-nine passengers have been rescued from militants in Afghanistan's eastern Ghazni province, the provincial government said Saturday.

An American military aircraft crashed in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, the U.S. military said, adding that there were no indications so far it'd been brought down by enemy fire.

Afghan forces have killed at least seven Taliban militants in a fierce conflict in the country's eastern Ghazni province, an army statement said Saturday.

An insider attack claimed the lives of 23 security personnel in Afghanistan's eastern Ghazni province on Saturday, head of Provincial Council Nasir Ahmad Faqiri said.