KABUL (AIP): Death toll in yesterday suicide blast reached 35 on Wednesday (Nov 7), said doctors in the Baghlam main hospital. The suicide blast, which occurred in a sugar factory in northern Baghlan province at the time when schoolchildren were w...

KANDAHAR (AIP): The visiting defence minister of Canada remained unhurt in a missile attack on a Canadian military base in Pashmol area in Zheri district of southern Kandahar province yesterday afternoon (November 6), the press office of Canadian for...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Unknown gunmen shot and killed a member of provincial council of southern Helmand province last night, official sources told AIP today (Wednesday). An official on condition of anonymity told AIP that the member of provincial counc...

QALAT (AIP): Some unknown highwaymen fired RPG rockets at two passengers vans yesterday (Nov 6) on Kabul-Kandahar highway in Zabul province near Aman Pul area, killing at least eight passengers in one and injuring three others in the second vehicle,...

QALAT (AIP): Taliban attacked a base of Afghan National Army in the Shinkai district of Zabul province last night, injuring two soldiers, an ANA commander said Wednesday (Nov. 07). A commander of Afghan National Army, Mulla Abdul Raziq told Afghan...

KABUL (AIP): Police seized and torched huge quantity of narcotics in the Abdul Khail district of eastern Ningarhar province Nov. 4, interior ministry said Tuesday (Nov. 06). Personnel of the counter-narcotics police seized 90 kilograms of morphi...

KABUL (AIP): A suicide bomber killed and wounded over 100 people including parliament members in the northern Baghlan province today (Nov. 06), police said Tuesday. A police officer of Balghlam told Afghan Islamic Press on condition of anonymity tha...

KABUL (AIP): Taliban on Tuesday condemned suicide attack in Baghlan in which over 100 people including parliament members and school children killed and wounded. "The Baghlan explosion was not conducted by Taliban and we were not behind the explosion...

KABUL (AIP): The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) Tuesday (Nov. 06) said Taliban were not in control of the Khak-e Sufid district center in Farah Province. "A combined Afghan Security Forces/ISAF patrol has swept through the ar...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Afghan National Police (ANP) and NATO forces detained during operation in Ghazni province last night, an official said Monday (Nov. 05). A local Taliban commander Mulla Fazlullah was also among the Taliban detained during the joint...