KHOST (AIP): Three security guards and two soldiers of Afghan National Army (ANA) were killed during separate incidents in Khost and Logar provinces yesterday (Aug. 25), Afghan officials said Wednesday. A vehicle traveling in by security guards of...

JALALABAD (AIP): Five workers of a road construction company were injured today (Aug. 26) when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in eastern Nangarhar province, sources said Wednesday. An official at Khugyani police department told Afghan Islamic...

KUNDUZ (AIP): Three Taliban were killed last night (Aug. 25) during a clash in Baghlan province, an official claimed Wednesday. Ameer Gul, chief of central Baghlan district told Afghan Islamic Press that the clash took place after Taliban attacked...

KABUL (AIP): Independent Election Commission of Afghanistan (IEC) here on Wednesday (Aug. 26) announced that Present Hamid Karzai secured 43 per cent votes while his main challenger Dr. Abdullah Abdullah bagged 34 per cent after calculating 17 per ce...

KABUL (AIP): Afghan President Hamid Karzai has strongly condemned the killing of a senior Afghan journalist, Janullah Hashimzada, in Pakistan tribal area of Khyber Agency yesterday (Aug. 24). In a press statement issued here on Tuesday the Afghan...

KUNDUZ /LASHKARGAH: Three police were killed and as many wounded in two separate incidents of violence in Kunduz and Helmand province during the past 24 hours, police said Tuesday. Taliban attacked a security post in Balchan Village, the limits of...

KHOST (AIP): A roadside bomb explosion left four civilians dead and five more wounded in Paktika province yesterday (Aug. 25), an official said Tuesday. Hamidullah Zwak, spokesman of governor Paktika province, told Afghan Islamic Press that the ro...

KABUL (AIP): Afghan and NATO forces detained a Taliban commander and discovered 300 mines during an operation in Muhammad Agha district of Logar province yesterday (Aug. 25), defence ministry said Tuesday. The defence ministry said in a press rele...

LASHKARGAH (AIP): Three children were killed in an explosion of an unexploded ordnance in Nehre Siraj district of Helmand province today (Aug. 25), doctors said Tuesday. The children were playing with the bomb they had found in a scrape dump when...

KABUL (AIP): An Afghan teenager detained at notorious US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay has arrived Tuesday (Aug. 25) in Kabul, capital of the war ravaged Afghanistan after he was released. Muhammad Jawad, the youngest detainee at Guantanamo...