Security Developments In Afghanistan, Feb 7

Taliban insurgents attacked a hotel on the main highway between Kabul and Jalalabad city overnight.

KHOST - U.S.-led coalition forces shot and killed one Afghan civilian man and wounded a woman and child when their car failed to stop at a checkpoint in southeastern Khost province on Friday, 150 km (95 miles) southeast of Kabul, the U.S. military said.

LAGHMAN - Taliban insurgents attacked a hotel on the main highway between Kabul and Jalalabad city overnight, 100 km (60 miles) east of the capital, killing a district police chief and his bodyguard inside, the provincial governor's spokesman said.

NANGARHAR - Unknown gunmen killed the deputy head of the provincial council in eastern Nangarhar province overnight, 120 km (75 miles) east of Kabul, Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, the provincial governor's spokesman said.

NANGARHAR - A roadside bomb killed the chief of Bati Kot district in Nangarhar province, 140 km (90) miles east of Kabul, Abdulzai said.