The Afghan Taliban on Thursday condemned the publication in France of further cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, and lauded last week’s deadly Islamist attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine office in Paris.

Taliban insurgents killed at least 13 in a series of attacks in Afghanistan on Saturday, underlining worsening security as US-led Nato forces end their combat mission in the country.

The Afghan government could fall apart after Nato troops pull out in 2014, particularly if presidential elections that year are fraudulent, a report by the International Crisis Group said.

A huge roadside bomb ripped through a minibus carrying guests to a wedding party in Afghanistan on Friday, killing at least 15 people and wounding 18 others.

A suicide truck bomb attack on a joint Nato-Afghan army base in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday caused several casualties to Afghan forces.

A suicide bomber killed at least 41 people, including five children, when he struck at a mosque in northern Afghanistan after Eid al-Adha prayers on Friday, officials said.

Afghanistan’s controversial intelligence chief was wounded in an assassination attempt in Kabul on Thursday, officials said.