HERAT: (AIP): Large number of residents Sunday (January 09) staged a protest demonstration against the arrest of five people including a prayer leader, Qari Noorullah, in Kunduz City. Chanting slogans against the foreign forces and condemning thei...

HERAT: (AIP): Two military uplift projects completed by the 207th Zafar Military Corps by spending $ 8.300 million were handed over to the relevant bodies yesterday (January 08), an official said Sunday (January 09). The 207th Military Corps Chair...

KANDAHAR: (AIP): Two persons were killed in separate incidents of violence in various areas here yesterday (January 08). A press release on Sunday (January 09) said unidentified armed gunned down dead a 17-year-old youth in Wali Muhammad Kulacha a...

KABUL: (AIP): As many as 15 suspected opponents were detained in separate parts of the country, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and National Defence Ministry said Sunday (January 09). The ISAF press office in Kabul in a press re...

KABUL: (AIP): As many as 87 persons, including police, opponents and Afghan citizens were killed and 68 more sustained injuries in the last week in Afghanistan, an official said Sunday (January 09). Addressing his weekly press conference in Kabul...

KABUL: (AIP): The Afghan President Sunday (January 09) met the new US special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, Frank Ruggiero, and the German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle. A presidential press office statement said the issues of security i...

JALALABAD (AIP): Commander of NATO-led forces in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus, visited eastern Ningarhar province Friday (Jan 07) and promised $50 million uplift projects for the province. The ISAF commander met governor of Ningarhar provin...

KABUL (AIP): A roadside bomb killed two soldiers of Afghan National Army (ANA) yesterday (Jan 07) in Sarkh district of Logar province, defence ministry said Saturday. An ANA vehicle struck a mine in Bandoki area, limits of Sarkh district, as a res...

KABUL: (AIP): Four persons were killed in a road accident in Maheepar area on Kabul-Jalalabad highway on Saturday (January 08). Colonel Halim Khan, an official at Kabul-Sarubi road, told media a tailor model vehicle ran over a small car in Maheepa...

KABUL: (AIP): The Indian Foreign Minister SM Krishna along with a delegation reached to Kabul Saturday (January 08). The Afghan foreign ministry spokesman Ahmad Zahir Faqiri told media that the Indian foreign minister would meet the Afghan authori...