KABUL (AIP): Afghan and Coalition forces routed several anti-coalition elements and destroyed their equipment in an operation early today (Sept. 21) in the Dih Yak district of Ghazni province, a coalition statement said Friday. The combined forc...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Veteran Pakhtun nationalist and central leader of Awami National Party (ANP), Afzal Khan Lala, was injured and two people were killed as unidentified gunmen attacked them in Matta, Swat, NWFP today (Sept. 21). Afzal Khan Lala was r...

KABUL (AIP): Taliban on Friday (Sept. 21) claimed responsibility for attack on French troops in Kabul today and said six foreign troops were killed. It was a remote controlled mine explosion conducted on a convoy of foreign troops, said Zabihullah M...

JALALABAD (AIP): Construction work on a 40km long road in Sar Shahi Dashta area in Ningarhar province has been launched and it would be completed within the stipulated time of one year with a cost of 10.50 million US dollars. Giving details about...

KANDAHAR (AIP): An Afghan civilian was killed and several others were injured when the car they were traveling collided with an ISAF patrol vehicle in the southern Kandahar province yesterday (Sept. 19). A statement issued by ISAF Thursday said th...

HERAT (AIP): Twenty Taliban and four police were killed during a clash in the Bala Murghab district of Badghis province yesterday (Sept. 19), governor said Thursday. Taliban attacked a security post in the Panjganj area, killing four police and wo...

KABUL (AIP): Hezb-e-Islami (Hekmatyar) claimed killing 16 Afghan troops in Maidan Wardak province last night. A man who phoned Afghan Islamic Press and identified himself as Hamza Amerkhail and spokesman of Hezb-e-Islami (Hekmatyar) said, "The fig...

KABUL (AIP): Taliban on Thursday (Sept. 20) claimed inflicting heavy losses on foreign forces in Midan Wardak province. Taliban blew up a vehicle of foreign troops in a roadside bomb explosion in the Nirkh district today, killing eight soldiers, Tali...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Unidentified gunmen shot dead a tribal elder in the Gereshk district of Helmand province last night, police said Wednesday (Sept. 19). Tribal elder Haji Mira Jan Adil was returning to his home after offering prayers in the mosque w...

HERAT (AIP): Newly appointed police chief of the western Herat province, Juma Khan Adeel, took charge of his office late yesterday (Sept. 18). Juma Khan Adeel replaced Muhammad Shafiq Fazli. He dismissed head of counter-crimes department, Nisar Ah...