KABUL (AIP): Taliban on Monday (April 18) asserted responsibility for attack on Afghan defence ministry compound in Kabul and said French defence minister and other military general were the target of their attack. The attack on deference ministry...

GHAZNI (AIP): A roadside bomb killed six Afghan policemen this morning (April 18) in Khugyani district of Ghazni province, police said Monday. The incident happened at approximately 10:30 a.m. (local time) when a police vehicle struck a mine in Pi...

KABUL (AIP): Counter-narcotics police rounded up three alleged smugglers allowing with 462 kg of opium yesterday (April 18) in Khashrod district of western Nimroz province, interior ministry said Monday. A press release issued by Interior ministr...

KABUL (AIP): At least one person was killed and 29 more sustained injuries as protest against the arrest of a religious cleric by the foreign forces turned violent in Charikar district of northern Parwan province on Monday (April 18). The foreign...

HERAT: (AIP): Thirteen Iranians among fifteen workers of a construction company were abducted by unidentified armed men in Pusht-i-Rod district of Farah province on Monday (April 18). Unknown armed men kidnapped 15 workers of a construction compan...

JALALABAD: (AIP): New branch of the Afghanistan Bank was officially inaugurated in Torkhan city in Nangarhar province near the Pakistan border on Monday (April 18). A Nangarhar governor media centre press release said that the 2-storey building of...

KABUL: (AIP): A police commander was killed and another cop sustained injuries in a clash between the police in Kabul City on Sunday (April 17). The Kabul police headquarters crime investigation in-charge Muhammad Zahir told media that clash erupt...

KABUL: (AIP): The Bhutan Prime Minister Jigmi Y Thinley called on the Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the presidential palace here Sunday (April 17). A presidential media centre press release said that Hamid Karzai welcomed The Bhutan Prime Minis...

HERAT: (AIP): The Taliban and the Afghan officials are at odds about casualties in a clash between the Taliban fighters and police in Farah province. The Taliban fighters attacked a checkpost of the border police in Qala-i-Kah district of Farah pr...

KABUL: (AIP): An Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier was killed and six more sustained injuries when their vehicle overturned in Afghanistan. A defence ministry statement said vehicle of 203rd Thunder military corps turned turtle, leaving an ANA so...