Afghanistan: Taliban launch co-ordinated attacks - in pictures

An Afghan police officer takes position at the site of an attack in Kabul Photograph: Omar Sobhani/Reuters

Afghan security officials secure a site near the parliament building in Kabul, which was targeted by the Taliban Photograph: Jawad Jalali/EPA

An Afghan soldier armed with a rocket-propelled grenade takes position during the attacks in Kabul Photograph: Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images

An Afghan soldier keeps watch as a Nato helicopter flies over the site of an attack in Jalalabad province Photograph: Parwiz/Reuters

An Afghan security officer runs to a building being used as a shelter by insurgents at the scene of an attack in Kabul Photograph: Massoud Hossaini/AFP/Getty Images

Nato soldiers in action during a gun battle in Kabul, Afghanistan Photograph: Musadeq Sadeq/AP

Afghan men stand around the wreckage of a car used by a suicide bomber in Jalalabad Photograph: Parwiz/Reuters

Smoke rises from the site of an attack in Paktia province Photograph: Reuters

A member of the allied forces aims his gun at a building being used by insurgents near the scene of an attack in Kabul Photograph: Massoud Hossaini/AFP/Getty Images

Gunfire and smoke from a building occupied by Taliban insurgents during a battle with Afghan-led forces in Kabul. The insurgents had holed up in the building in the heart of the city and another near parliament Photograph: Musadeq Sadeq/AP

Afghan police officers examine the body of an insurgent on the floor inside a building in Kabul. A total of 36 Taliban militants were killed as they mounted a wave of attacks across Afghanistan Photograph: Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images

Police remove the wreckage of a car in Kabul Photograph: Bay Ismoyo/AFP/Getty Images

Afghan special forces secure a building which was occupied by militants in Kabul Photograph: Musadeq Sadeq/AP

Kabul is seen through broken windows a day after insurgents used the building for their attacks on the Afghan parliament Photograph: Bay Ismoyo/AFP/Getty Images

An Afghan police officer moves the door of a car used in a suicide attack outside the building where Taliban fighters launched an attack in Kabul. Afghanistan said its forces had regained control of the city Photograph: Massoud Hossaini/AFP/Getty Images