KUNDUZ: (AIP): Two persons were killed when their vehicle struck an improvised explosive device in Bangi district of Takhar province on Sunday (August 28). In-charge of Taluqan civil hospital, Dr Muhammad Hassan Baseej told Afghan Islamic Press (A...

JALALABAD: (AIP): A minor was killed, dozens of houses were flattened, large area of cultivable land was washed away and dozens of cattle were killed when flash floods caused by heavy downpour hit several districts of Nangarhar province on Sunday (Au...

KUNDUZ: (AIP): Five persons were held on various charges in various areas of Takhar province over the past twenty-four hours. Addressing a press conference in Taluqan on Sunday (August 28), the Takhar Police Chief Brigadier Khair Muhammad Taimur s...

SHEBERGHAN: (AIP): Officials and Taliban are raising conflicting claims about casualties to each other in a clash in Sayyad district of Sar-i-Pul province yesterday (August 27). The Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told the Afghan Islamic Pres...

SHEBERGHAN: (AIP): Following the directives of the Afghan President Hamid Karzai on the occasion of 92nd Independence Day of Afghanistan, 178 prisoners including 20 women were released from prisons in Jawzjan and Sheberghan provinces on Sunday (Augus...

JALALABAD (AIP): A policeman was injured in a roadside bomb attack this morning (Aug. 27) in Khugyani district of eastern Ningarhar province, an official said Saturday. The mine planted in Qilgho area was detonated through a remote control when a...

LASHKARGAH (AIP): Casualties are feared as a heavy explosion rocked Lashkargah, capital of Helmand province, today (Aug. 27), eyewitnesses said Saturday. Eyewitnesses told Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) that the explosion happened close to a branch o...

HERAT (AIP): Unknown gunmen killed five members of a family in Zaranj City, capital of western Nimroz province, this morning police said Saturday. The gunmen broke into a house in the jurisdiction of 2nd police district earlier today, killing a m...

KABUL (AIP): Afghan and foreign forces killed eight suspected Taliban and captured 21 others during separate operations over the past 24 hours across the country, Afghan interior ministry said Saturday (Aug. 27). The interior ministry said in a st...

HERAT (AIP): Security forces seized 240 litre of chemicals used in processing narcotics in western Herat province, police said Saturday (Aug. 27). Brig. Said Aqa Saqib, police chief of Herat province, told Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) that the bann...