KABUL (AIP): Some 1.2 million children under five years of age will be vaccinated against polio in 46 districts of nine provinces of Afghanistan during a three-day anti-polio campaign started today (Sept. 13). According to a press release issued...

JALALABAD (AIP): Four police were killed and three more injured last night (Sept. 11) in Taliban attack in eastern Nangarhar province, an official said Saturday. Taliban attacked two police post at Sasobi area of Dor Baba district, killing four...

KABUL (AIP): At least 12 civilians were killed and two others injured in a roadside bomb explosion in Uruzgan province yesterday (Sept. 11), an official said Saturday. Lt. Col. Gulab Shah, anti-crimes chief in provincial police department while gi...

JALALABAD (AIP): Six workers of a road construction company were killed and 10 others injured in Taliban attack in eastern Kunar province today (Sept. 12), police said Saturday. Commander Khalilullah Ziyaee, provincial police chief told Afghan Is...

HERAT (AIP): Four people, including two women and a soldier of Afghan National Army, were killed and five others wounded today (Sept. 12) in a clash between ANA personnel and Taliban in western Farah province, a military officer said Saturday. The cl...

KANDAHAR (AIP): A worker of National Security [intelligence agency] was killed and three others injured when two suicide bombers blew themselves up in Kandahar City today (Sept. 12), sources said Saturday. A local official of National Security t...

KABUL (AIP): Independent Election Commission of Afghanistan (IEC) has announced that President Hamid Karzai has secured 53.4 per cent votes after 92. 8 ballots counted so far. A spokesman for the IEC told a press conference here on Saturday (Sept....

GHAZNI (AIP): A soldier of Afghan National Army (ANA) was killed and three more wounded in a mine explosion yesterday in Zabul province, a military sources said Friday. The incident happened in Dagar area of Shamalzai district when a roadside bomb...

KABUL (AIP): A US soldier was killed in Taliban attack yesterday (Sept. 11), raising the number of foreign troops killed in eastern Afghanistan during the past 24 hours to two, ISAF said Friday. The soldier was killed after Taliban attacked ISAF pat...

KHOST (AIP): A heavy explosion near a police post in the limits of Khost City left nine children wounded today (Sept. 11), eyewitnesses and doctors said Friday. The explosion happened close to Hindwano Killi, an eyewitness told Afghan Islamic Pres...