KABUL (AIP): Two policemen, including a district police chief, were killed and four others injured today (Sept. 16) in a roadside bomb blast in Uruzgan province, interior ministry said Wednesday. According to a statement released by interior mini...

KABUL (AIP): Afghan Border Police seized a vehicle loaded with explosives and suicide jackets in Khost province today (Sept. 16), interior ministry said Wednesday. The vehicle was captured in Sheikh Ameer area of Gorboz district, interior ministr...

KUNDUZ (AIP): A communist-era mass-grave has been unearthed in Aliabad district of northern Kunduz province, officials said Tuesday (Sept. 15). The remains of 25 to 30 people have been found in the newly un-earthed mass grave in the Old City area...

HERAT (AIP): Two persons were injured today (Sept. 15) when explosives planted under a culvert went off in Herat City, eyewitnesses said Tuesday. The eyewitnesses told Afghan Islamic Press that the injured included an employee of Rural Uplift Depa...

KABUL (AIP): Peter Galbraith, deputy to Kai Eide, head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), has left for the US after he developed differences with his boss over election process, sources said Tuesday. Informed sources in Kabul tol...

KABUL (AIP): Afghan Health Ministry has said cholera disease has broken out in ten provinces of the country. Afghan Public Health Institute has so far recorded 673 cases countrywide, the health ministry said, adding all outbreaks are under control...

GHAZNI (AIP): A Talib fighter was killed and two police wounded during a clash Qarabagh district of Ghazni province last night, Taliban, officials said Monday (Sept. 14). Mohibullah Khpalwak, district chief of Qarabagh, confirmed to Afghan Islamic...

KABUL (AIP): Counter-narcotics police seized huge quantity of narcotics during an operation in Achin district of eastern Ningarhar province today (Sept. 14), interior ministry said Monday. The operation was conducted in Babandar Village in which 1...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Afghan officials claimed one Monday that 28 Taliban were killed and wounded during operation last night in Zehri district of Kandahar province. Afghan national police and ISAF conducted a string of operations against Taliban Ashg...

JALALABAD (AIP): Four tribesmen were killed and three others wounded today (Sept. 14) when two tribes exchanged fire over a petty issue in Agam district of eastern Nangarhar province, an official said Monday. Haji Abdullah, chief of Agam distric...