HERAT (AIP): Police on Saturday (May 16) claimed to have arrested a would-be suicide bomber in Farah province. Spokesman of police in western zone Abdul Rauf Ahmedi told Afghan Islamic Press that the alleged suicide bomber was detained yesterday (...

HERAT (AIP): Combined forces seized 379 kg raw hashish and arrested four persons this morning (May 16) in Kandahar province. Fazal Ahmed Sherzad, chief of counter narcotics at Kandahar police department told Afghan Islamic Press that the hashish w...

KABUL (AIP): The investigation team confirmed that 140 civilians were killed and 25 others injured in the air strike by foreign forces in Grani village of Bala Baluk district, Farah province on 4th and 5th May, defence ministry said Saturday (May 16)...

KABUL (AIP): Two soldiers of NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed today (May 15) during an attack in eastern Afghanistan, ISAF said Friday. The soldiers were killed as a result of direct fire, ISAF said in a statemen...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Eight people were injured today (May 15) when roof of a mosque caved in due to an explosion in Wana, headquarters of South Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan, security sources said Friday. The sources told Afghan Islamic Press t...

KHOST (AIP): Three persons were killed and eight others injured this evening (May 15) when a rocket hit a mosque in Sara Bahg area near Khost City, hospital sources said Friday. Ameer Badsha Mangal, doctor at a hospital in Khost told Afghan Islami...

KANDAHAR (AIP): A contingent of 2,500 US troops has arrived in Kandahar Airport in 21 airplanes. Addressing a press conference at Kandahar Airport on Friday (May 15), Commander John Maker said that the newly arrived soldiers would serve under coa...

GHAZNI (AIP): A roadside bomb killed two people including a district rights chief in Logar province yesterday (May 15), an official said Friday. Ghulam Farooq Hamyun, in-charge of Charkh district told Afghan Islamic Press that the incident was hap...

KANDAHAR (AIP): A British aircraft made crash landing at Kandahar Air Filed today (May 14), causing minor injures to pilot, ISAF said Thursday. A spokesman of NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) told Afghan Islamic Press that no...

KHOST (AIP): A bomb explosion near a playground wounded six cricketers in Khost province today (May 14), eyewitness said Thursday. The explosion happened at approximately 6:00 p.m. local time close to a cricket ground in Shambawat area of Nadar Sh...