KABUL (AIP): Taliban on Friday (Jan 28) claimed they had inflicted casualties on combined force during separate attacks in Afghanistan. ISAF and Afghan officials, however, denied casualties to their troops. A clash erupted in Tapak area of Alingar...

SHEBARGHAN (AIP): Afghan officials Friday (Jan 28) claimed that eight suspected Taliban were killed during a clash with police in Sur-e-Pul province yesterday. Taliban, however, said two cops were killed and a Taliban wounded in the gunbattle. The...

HERAT (AIP): A roadside bomb killed a civilian and wounded two others today (Jan 28) in Bala Balok district of western Farah province, security officials said Friday. A civilian car which was on way to Farah City, capital of Farah province, from B...

KABUL (AIP): Four strong candidates are in the run for the slot of speaker of Afghan parliament as Wolesi Jirga (lower house of parliament) will meet Saturday (Jan 29) to elect speaker, two deputy speakers and administrative commission. Informed s...

LASHKARGAH (AIP): A roadside bomb killed three police and wounded another yesterday (Jan 26) in Nawa district of Helmand province, police said Thursday. A police vehicle struck a mine in Merza Khan Village, Nawa district, Helmand province, yesterd...

KABUL (AIP): The National Security Council (NSC) Thursday stressed (January 27) the Afghan National Army (ANA) should be made fully equipped before transition of security commands to them. A meeting of the NSC was held here which was presided over...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban attacked a police security escort yesterday (Jan 25) in Chora district of southern Uruzgan province, killing two cops, police said Wednesday. Juma Gul Hemmat, police chief of Uruzgan province, told Afghan Islamic Press (AIP...

HERAT (AIP): US Ambassador to Kabul, Karl W. Eikenberry, Wednesday (Jan 26) inaugurated a market for agriculture products in the western Farah City. In this connection a ceremony was organized which was also attended by deputy agriculture minister...

JALALABAD (AIP): A bomb damaged two music centres (cassette shops) earlier today (Jan 24) in Jalalabad City, an official said Monday. The explosion was caused by the detonation of explosives in one of the two shops on wheat market road in the pro...

KUNDUZ (AIP): Unknown gunmen shot and killed a former jihadi commander and his son last night in Dara-e-Sauf Payen district of northern Samangan province, police said Monday (Jan 24). Abdur Razzaq Elkhani, police chief of Samangan province, told A...