KHOST (AIP): A soldier of foreign forces was injured in a suicide attack in Khost province today (Aug. 13), foreign forces said Monday. Press office of foreign troops in Khost City told Afghan Islamic Press that one soldiers was wounded in the sui...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban on Monday said they freed two female Korean hostages in Andar district of Ghazni province today. A spokesman of a Taliban commander in Ghazni told Afghan Islamic Press that the two female hostages have been freed and they w...

GHAZNI (AIP): Two sick female Korean hostages released by Taliban today, reached Ghazni City and handed over to Korean officials, an official said Monday. "The freed Korean women were brought to ICRC office in Ghazni City and handed over to the Ko...

KABUL (AIP): South Korean Embassy in Kabul confirmed that they have been handed over the two females released by Taliban earlier today (Aug. 13.

ISLAMABAD (AIP): Pakistani President Gen Pervez Musharraf has left for Kabul, Afghan Capital, to participate in four-day Pakistan-Afghanistan Joint Peace Jirga on Sunday. The President would address the concluding session of the jirga, which commen...

JALALABAD (AIP): Three Coalition forces soldiers and one civilian interpreter died of wounds sustained from an IED blast during a combat operation in Ningarhar province Sunday.A Coalition statement issued here said that forces were engaged in combat...

GHAZNI (AIP): Journalists after waiting for a long time in front of the office of the Afghan Red Crescent Society in Ghazni returned empty handed on Sunday as no information about the fresh talks between Taliban and South Korean officials could be as...

KABUL (AIP): The joint declaration of the four-day Afghanistan-Pakistan Joint Peace Jirga strongly recognized on the fact that terrorism is a common threat to both countries and the war on terror should continue to be an integral part of the national...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Two policemen were injured when their vehicle struck a mine in Sangin district of Helmand province on Sunday afternoon, said provincial police chief of Helmand, Mohammad Hussain Andiwal. Earlier, the Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Y...

KANDAHAR (AIP): No meeting took place between the Taliban leaders and South Korean officials on the issue of 21 hostages while the two sick female hostages were still in the custody of Taliban, said a spokesman for the Taliban Qari Mohammad Yousaf Ah...