KABUL (AIP): Foreign forces killed two soldiers of Afghan National Army (ANA) and wounded five more during an airstrike last night in Sarkh district of Logar province, defence ministry said Wednesday. Afghan defence ministry announced in a press s...

KABUL: (AIP): As many as 50 policemen have been graduated and deployed at their duties after receiving two-month training in Wardag province. A press release on Wednesday said the police personnel were been trained for two month by the Wardag poli...

KANDAHAR: (AIP): The Taliban Wednesday claimed to have killed scores of border police during attack on their base in Shamalzai district of Zabul province. Talking to the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP), the Taliban spokesman Qari Muhammad Yousaf Ahmadi...

KABUL: (AIP): The United States Defence Minister Robert Gates has said that the Afghan President Hamid Karzai was a close and reliable US friend. This he said while addressing a joint press conference along with the Afghan President Hamid Karzai in...

LASHKARGAH (AIP): British Prime Minister, David Cameron, is holding talks with governor of Helmand province Tuesday morning (Dec. 07) after he arrived in this troubled province. Sources told Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) that the British Prime minist...

KABUL (AIP): Six soldiers of Afghan National Army (ANA) were killed and another wounded in two separate incidents yesterday in Badghis and Ghazni province, defence ministry said Tuesday. Taliban attacked commando troops of Afghan National Army (AN...

GHAZNI (AIP): Two separate traffic accidents left a driver killed and 12 other people wounded yesterday in Ghazni province, an official said Tuesday. A motorcar collided with a heavy vehicle in Mulla Nooh Baba area of Andar district on Kabul-Kanda...

SHEBARGHAN (AIP): Unknown gunmen kidnapped an Afghan engineer and his driver today (Dec. 07) in northern Jowzjan province, an official said Tuesday. A delegation from Kabul was inspecting some projects launched by National Solidarity Programme in...

KABUL (AIP): Renewing his pledge to pull-out troops from Afghanistan, British Prime Minister David Cameron has said they would start gradual withdrawal of forces next year. Addressing a joint press conference with Afghan President Hamid Karzai aft...

HERAT (AIP): One of the two Afghan engineers kidnapped by unknown was found dead last night in western Farah province, police said Monday (Dec. 06). Muhammad Munir, a police officer of Farah province, told Afghan Islamic Press that one of the two...