HERAT: (AIP): Unidentified armed men abducted the Shahrak district jail in-charge in Ghor province early Sunday. The Ghor governor spokesman Abdul Hai Khatibi told Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) that armed Taliban kidnapped the in-charge of the Shahra...

KUNDUZ: (AIP): As many as 12 opponents, including their commander, surrendered their arms to the government in Kunduz province last night, an official said Sunday. The Imam Sahib District Chief Muhammad Ayub Haqyar told Afghan Islamic Press (AIP)...

KABUL: (AIP): The Interior Ministry Spokesman Zamari Bashari has said that 133 people, including police, civilians and opponents, have suffered casualties during the last one week. Addressing weekly press conference in Kabul on Sunday, Bashari sai...

KABUL: (AIP): A soldier of the Afghan National Army (ANA) was killed and five more sustained injuries in separate incidents yesterday (December 11). The Defence Ministry in a press release on Sunday said an ANA soldier was killed and five more inj...

KABUL: (AIP): The ISAF-Afghan combined forces seized huge quantity of narcotics in Farah and Helmand provinces, ISAF and Afghan officials said Sunday. The press release said the combined forces recovered 1,000 kilograms of opium and 37 kilograms o...

LASHKARGAH (AIP): At least 15 civilians were killed when the vehicle they were travelling in hit a roadside bomb yesterday (Dec. 10) in Khanishin district of troubled Helmand province, officials told AIP Saturday.

KABUL (AIP): President Hamid Karzai left for Turkmenistan before noon today (Dec. 11) to sign the multi-billion dollar Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project. Turkmenistan would export around 33 billion cubic meters of...

KANDAHAR (AIP): A heavy explosion was heard in Kandahar City today (Dec. 11) but there were no details of the damage, sources said Saturday. A security official who wished not to be named told Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) the explosion happened in t...

KANDAHAR (AIP): A car bomb blast wounded six police and two civilians today (Dec. 11) in Kadahahar City, police and doctors said Saturday. A doctor at emergency section of Mirwais Hospital in Kandahar city told Afghan Islamic Press that six polic...