KANDAHAR (AIP): A mine explosion left three civilians dead and as many wounded today (Aug. 29) in southern Kandahar province, interior ministry said Saturday. The incident occurred at Jilan village in Arghandab district when a vehicle carrying civ...

KABUL (AIP): Independent Election Commission of Afghanistan (IEC) has announced that 1/3 votes have been counted so far. A spokesman for the IEC while taking to media here on Saturday (Aug. 29) said that President Hamid Karzai secured 47 per cent...

KABUL (AIP): A US soldier serving under ISAF commander in eastern Afghanistan was killed in a roadside bomb explosion today (Aug. 28), the NATO-led force said Friday. The ISAF soldier was killed when the vehicle he was travelling in struck an impr...

GHAZNI (AIP): Four personnel of counter-narcotics police force were killed and 27 others wounded in Taliban attack in Ghazni province today (Aug. 28), a security official said Friday. A security official who wished not to be named told Afghan Isla...

KHOST (AIP): Acting police chief of Janikhel district of Paktia province was killed yesterday in a roadside bomb explosion, police said Thursday. The incident happened in Kharki area of Lajah Mangal district in which acting police chief of Janikh...

HERAT (AIP): One police and five Taliban were killed in separate incidents of violence in western Farah province today (Aug. 27), governor said Thursday. A vehicle of police escorting election personnel hit a land mine in the limits of Gulistan di...

KHOST (AIP): A roadside bomb explosion left four border police dead and three wounded near Pak-Afghan border in Khost province before noon today (Aug. 27), police said Thursday. the incident took place Barai Thana area of Gorbaz district near Paki...

JALALABAD (AIP): NATO forces killed 23 Taliban during an air strike in Barg-e-Matal district of eastern Noristan province today (Aug. 27), an Afghan spokesman said Thursday. The NATO forces having support of air force conducted the operation after...

KANDAHAR (AIP): A roadside bomb left a district chief dead in southern Kandahar province yesterday (Aug. 26), sources said Wednesday. Haji Said Jan Khakrezwal, member of Kandahar Provincial Council, confirmed to Afghan Islamic Press that the roadsid...

KUNDUZ (AIP): Unidentified gunmen killed a Pakistani engineer and wounded two in the limits of Pul-e-Khumri, capital of Baghlan province yesterday (Aug. 25), police said Wednesday. Police chief of neighbouring Samangan province Abdur Raziq told Af...