US raids kill 10 in eastern Afghanistan

Separately, Afghan police said two national intelligence agents and one police officer were killed late on Friday in a bomb attack on their vehicle south of Kabul. They were hit while responding to an earlier bomb attack that injured three police officers, regional police commander Gen. Zalmai Oryakhail said.

The US military said those killed in eastern Paktya province were Haqqani militants and foreign fighters known to have planned and conducted bomb attacks on civilians and coalition forces, and to coordinate suicide bombings.

The military has not yet determined whether any of the targeted leaders were among those killed, said US Army spokeswoman Master Sgt. Melissa Rolan.

Police thwarted a suicide attack in the eastern city of Khost on Saturday, officials said. Officers surrounded a suspect, who was on foot, and the man detonated the explosives on his body. The would-be attacker died but no one else was injured, said health department director Gull Mohammedan Mohammadi.