KHOST (AIP): A gypsy was killed and four police were wounded in two separate explosions in Khost province last night, police said Tuesday (Aug. 21). Unidentified assailants hurled hand-grenades at the tints of gypsies in Hindwano village, Khost, i...

GHAZNI (AIP): Police claimed they had killed nine Taliban in two separate clashes in Ghazni province Tuesday (Aug. 21). Police chief of Ghazni province, General Ali Shah Ahmadzai, while giving details to Afghan Islamic Press said Taliban attacked...

HERAT (AIP): An Iranian girl who was abducted by unknown people, was recovered last night in Farah province, an official said Tuesday (Aug. 21). The girl, hailing from the Khurasan province of Iran, was abducted 10 days back and recovered by polic...

KABUL (AIP): Unidentified gunmen kidnapped a district chief in Logar province last night, security sources said Tuesday (Aug. 21). District chief Khawar, Mirza Muhammad was picked up after an attack on his house, sources told Afghan Islamic Press....

KABUL (AIP): A helicopter of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) made emergency landing in Kabul today (Aug. 21), ISAF office said Tuesday. The helicopter landed in Khak-e-Jabar, area western Kabul. "We did have a ISAF helicopter had...

KABUL (AIP): Afghan police arrested a suspected local Taliban commander in Ghazni province yesterday, a statement said Tuesday (Aug. 21). The statement issued by the interior ministry said the Taliban commander Mulla Naser was detained in the Qara Ba...

KHOST (AIP): Afghan and foreign forces would soon launch Operation Khyber in three province of Afghanistan, an official said Tuesday (Aug. 21). Public Relation Officer of 203rd Thunder Corps, Colonel Gul Muhammad told Afghan Islamic Press that the...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban claimed to have killed two policemen including a commander when they attacked a police checkpost on Kandahar highway on Monday (August 20). A Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousaf Ahmadi told AIP over phone that Taliban fi...

KABUL (AIP): A female German hostage was freed from a Kabul neighborhood by Afghan police with the help of other security forces and had arrested a group of four kidnappers early Monday, an official told AIP on Monday (August 20). The source said tha...

KANDAHAR (AIP): A fierce fighting between police and Taliban militants was continuing since last night (Aug 19) in Sangin district of Helmand province but no report about the casualties could be ascertained. A resident of Sangin told AIP on Monda...