JALALABAD (AIP): A contracted helicopter struck by a rocket-propelled grenade in Kamdesh district of Nuristan province yesterday (August 29) was safely landed with minor damage to it, said a press release issued by Coalition here Thursday (August 30)...

KANDAHAR (AIP): A purported Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousaf has said that they would free the remaining seven South Korean hostages after a few minutes and will also release a message of the Taliban for the South Korean government.

KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban freed four more of remaining seven South Korean hostages including two women and men on Thursday evening (August 30), Haji Zahir a tribal leader. He confirmed that the four were handed over them by the Taliban. He expressed...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban freed the remaining three South Korean hostages and handed them over the tribal elders in central Afghanistan on Thursday, said a Taliban spokesman. With the release of these three South Koreans now there is no hostage in the...

Taliban say to free a group of hostages August 29, 2007 KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban said Wednesday that a group of South Koran hostages will be freed today (Wednesday), August 29. A Taliban spokesman Qari Mohamad Yousaf told AIP over phone that accor...

KABUL (AIP): Taliban on Wednesday (Aug. 29) said that five more Korean hostages would be freed today. A purported Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousaf Ahmadi told AIP that a five more South Korean hostages would be released shortly today. He...

KHOST (AIP): Six people including two soldiers of the Afghan National Army were killed in a suicide explosion in Paktika province today (Aug. 29), an official said Wednesday. The suicide bomber detonated himself in Barmal bazar, at approximately 1...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban on Wednesday (Aug. 29) released another group of five South Korean hostages which raised the number of freed hostages to eight today. Taliban handed over five more Korean hostages including a four women and a man to us who wi...

GHAZNI (AIP): Taliban have agreed to release four more South Korean hostages today (Aug. 29), a tribal elder said Wednesday. "We have turned in a total of eight hostages to ICRC and South Korea officials but South Korea was insisting on the release...

GHAZNI (AIP): Taliban on Wednesday (Aug. 29) released a third group of four South Korean hostages which raised the number of hostages freed today to 12. The third group of four more South Korean hostages consisting of three women and a male was tu...