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'Taliban attackers' target US Afghanistan base

There have been "multiple explosions" near an airfield at a US base in eastern Afghanistan, Nato has said.

Afghan intelligence officials told the BBC seven suicide attackers targeted the base in Jalalabad, and witnesses said that gunfire was heard.

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