A rocket landed just outside the walls of China's embassy in Afghanistan today but no one was wounded, witnesses said.
The rocket left a small crater in the road outside the mission in Kabul and caused slight damage to nearby trees and walls. It landed at just before midnight (local time) today.
Afghan soldiers at the scene said it appeared to have been fired from the west of the city. It was unclear whether the Chinese embassy was the intended target.
NATO-led peacekeepers who patrol Kabul were investigating, and members of a separate 20,000-strong US-led force hunting militants in Afghanistan had cordoned off the road.
Fighters loyal to the ousted Taliban are blamed for frequent rocket attacks on Kabul, although they rarely inflict serious casualties. But one woman was killed earlier this month by shrapnel from a rocket.
Around 900 people have been killed over the past year in a wave of violence mostly blamed on remnants of the hardline Islamic regime, opposed to the US-backed government and its plans for elections in October and April.