KABUL (AIP): Taliban and South Korean officials have reached on an agreement to release 19 Korean hostages, reliable sources said Saturday (Aug. 25). The agreement was reached after the mediation of Saudi Arabia, sources told Afghan Islamic Pr...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Two Afghan security guards of a private US security company were killed and three others wounded in a bomb blast in the troubled Kandahar province today (Aug. 25), police said Thursday. Provincial police chief, Sayyed Agha Saqib to...

KABUL (AIP): President Hamid Karzai left for Tajikistan on a two-day visit Saturday (Aug. 25). Government sources said President Karzai accompanied by a high level delegation will participate in an inaugural ceremony of newly constructed bridge c...

KABUL (AIP): Coalition forces killed one suspected fighter and detained 11 other people during an operation in the Seherzad district, a coalition statement said Friday (Aug. 24). The anti-coalition militant was killed while attempting to engage...

KHOST (AIP): Police detained four suspected Taliban yesterday (Aug. 23) in Paktika province, governor said Friday. The suspected Taliban were held between Tarazo and Sharana, capital of Paktika province, Dr. Muhammad Akram Khapalwak, governor of P...

KABUL (AIP): Three ISAF soldiers were killed and two others injured while on operations in southern Afghanistan on Aug. 23, an ISAF statement said Friday. "All ISAF troops continue to work in difficult, dangerous and challenging conditions, and do...

KABUL (AIP): A vehicle rollover caused the non-combat deaths of two Coalition Soldiers and injured two more near Camp Stone, Herat Province at today (Aug. 24), a coalition statement said Friday. The names and nationalities of the servicemembers are...

KABUL (AIP): International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has begun investigation into a "probably friendly fire" incident in which two British troops were killed and two other wounded yesterday, an ISAF statement said Friday. "Three soldiers fr...

ZABUL (AIP): Police engaged a group of Taliban in the Deh Chopan district of Zabul last night, killing three and wounding four others Taliban, an official said Friday (Aug. 24). The group of Taliban wanted to attack district centre of Deh Chopan b...

KABUL (AIP): Two ISAF soldiers and an interpreter were killed during a patrol in southern Afghanistan yesterday (Aug. 22), an ISAF statement said Thursday. One other soldier and two journalists also suffered injuries in the same incident, the sta...