JALALABAD (AIP): Three people including two police were killed and five others injured today (July 19) in a suicide attack at Afghan side of Torkham border, eyewitnesses said Sunday. The eyewitnesses told Afghan Islamic Press that the strike was c...

KHOST (AIP): Floods caused by heavy rains left six people injured in Spera district of Khost province, an official said Sunday (July 19). Heavy rains received during the last few days caused floods in the district, injuring six people while damagi...

KABUL (AIP): Hezb-e-Islami (Hekmatyar) on Sunday (July 19) claimed that their fighters killed 30 foreign soldiers during a fierce clash in Paktika province. The clash took place when a convoy of foreign forces was attacked at approximately 07:00...

JALALABAD (AIP): An explosion took place on Sunday night (July 19) in Jalalabad City, capital of eastern Nangarhar province, causing no casualties, security official said. They said that the explosion occurred at approximately 08:45 p.m. near a po...

KABUL (AIP): Taliban on Sunday (July 19) released video footage of a US soldier they had captured on June 30 in Yousafkhel district of Paktika province. The captured soldier sitting on a bed [kat] with some food in his front disclosed the recording d...

KANDAHAR (AIP): An unknown snatched rifle from a soldier of Afghan National Army (ANA) in the vicinity of Kandahar City yesterday (July 16), a resident said Friday. A resident of the area told Afghan Islamic Press the ANA soldier and a local resid...

KUNDUZ (AIP): Taliban fired rockets on a district headquarters in northern Kunduz province last night, causing no loss of life or property, an official said Saturday (July 18). Mualim Juma Khan, chief of Imam Sahib district, told Afghan Islamic Pr...

KABUL (AIP): Three soldiers of Afghan National Army (ANA) were killed and as many wounded in a suicide attack today (July 18) in Zabul province, defence ministry said Saturday. The suicide bomber crashed his explosive laden vehicle into a Ranger v...

HERAT (AIP): Police seized 48 kg of crystal, a kind of narcotics, in western Herat province yesterday (July 17), police said Saturday. Noor Khan Nekzad, spokesman of police department, told Afghan Islamic Press that the drug was recovered from th...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Afghan officials claimed that 337 Taliban were killed during the last one month in various provinces of Afghanistan. Addressing a press conference here on Saturday (July 18), Sher Muhammad Zazay, commander of 205 Army Corps in Kan...