KHOST (AIP): A policeman was killed and a district police among four others wounded during a gun battle with Taliban in Khost province today (Aug. 17), an official said Friday. A government official who wished not to be named told Afghan Islamic P...

KABUL (AIP): Afghan and coalition forces clashed with Taliban northwest of the Sangin District Center, Helmand province yesterday (Aug. 15), killing four and wounding two Taliban, a coalition statement said Thursday. Provincial police chief Muhammad...

KANDAHAR AIP): Taliban executed a man in Ghazni province on charges of spying for foreign force. Spokesman of Taliban Qari Muhammad Yosuaf Ahmadi told Afghan Islamic Press by phone from an undisclosed location Thursday (Aug. 16) that Taliban captu...

KANDAHAR (AIP): The face-to-face talks between Taliban team and South Korean officials restarted in Ghazni City today (Aug. 16). "Talks on the fate of 19 Korean hostages restarted at the ICRC office approximately 9:00 a.m. (local time) today," sai...

JALALABAD (AIP): The ongoing ground and air operation launched by foreign forces against Taliban in the Spin Ghar area of eastern Ningarhar province has forced hundreds of families to migrate to safer areas, an official said Thursday (Aug. 16). Ap...

KHOST (AIP): Taliban kidnapped four workers of a construction company in Paktia province, an official said Thursday (Aug. 16). All the four were Afghans and working for a local construction company in the Zarmat district of Paktia province who wer...

KABUL (AIP): Taliban on Thursday (Aug.16) said neither they are terrorists nor interfering in any country of the world. This was said in a statement of Taliban leadership council on the eve of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting being...

KABUL (AIP): President Hamid Karzai left Kabul for Kyrgyzstan today (Aug. 15) to attend Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), sources in Afghanistan's capital said Wednesday. The SCO meet is being held in Bashkek, capital of Kyrgyzstan tomorrow (A...

KABUL (AIP): Three soldiers of NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed in a roadside bomb explosion in Kabul today (Aug. 16), a police officer said Wednesday. The incident was happened near Bootkhak, Bagrami area of Kabul...

August 15, 2007 KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban said Wednesday fresh talks with South Korean likely to take place tomorrow (Thursday) on the issue of hostages. A Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousaf Ahmadi told AIP over phone from an undisclosed location t...