The Afghan capital Kabul was attacked early this morning (Irish time) when several warplanes dropped bombs and rockets into the city, witnesses said.
"Fighters can be seen in the sky. I don't know how many but there are more than two," one witness said.
An apparent missile blasted a city centre guest house belonging to the ruling Taliban, shattering nearby windows, but there was no immediate sign of any casualties.
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A witness said shrapnel from the blast landed on his house. "I presume it was [a missile] because I heard the whizz as it went by," he said.
"They hit a Taliban guest house, but the Taliban have been firing at planes from there for the last couple of nights. The Taliban are evacuating their machine guns, cannon, rocket launchers, grenades and other military equipment," he said.
Witnesses said US-led forces attacked the city three times overnight and again soon after dawn.