The US envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistani Marc Grossman on Saturday arrived in Kabul for talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on peace talks with the Taliban.

France has sent its Defence Minister Gérard Longuet to Kabul to investigate the killing of four French troops by an Afghan soldier in eastern province of Kapisa.

Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt on Friday met her troops in southern Helmand province, the first visit since she took office last year.

Four French troops were killed and 17 others wounded in eastern Afghanistan after an Afghan National Army soldier opened fire on his international partners, causing suspension of French military operations in the country.

The US military authorities on Friday said that 6 marines were killed in a chopper crash in southern Afghanistan late on Thursday.

A helicopter operated by the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has crashed in Logar province in eastern Afghanistan.

A 166 page report published in The Sunday Age, an Australian newspaper, raises fresh doubts about capability of Afghan security forces to take over after 2014 when all foreign troops withdraw from the country.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday condemned the Nato raid on the house of Hafizullah, the local counter narcotics chief in eastern Paktia province, the President's Office said.

Afghanistan's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Zalmai Rasoul, on Sunday said that no party will take part in peace talks with the Taliban without the agreement of the Afghan government.

The Afghan government can recover up to 80 percent of the $825 million of Kabul Bank, Afghanistan's new central bank governor, Noorullah Delawari, said on Sunday.