PESHAWAR (AIP): A woman was killed on Sunday night when unknown gunmen fired two rockets at Afghan capital, sources said. Sources told AIP from Kabul that some unidentified armed fired rockets at Shash Dara, Northeast of the Afghan capital. Reports said that one rocket landed in a house, killing a...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Fresh reports of clashes between Taliban and government forces have reached here from southern Kandahar province. Mufti Lateefullah Hakeemi, spokesman of Taliban said that their fighters clashed with Afghan troops on Friday at Manishan district and a fierce gun battle took place,...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Four soldiers of Afghan National Army reportedly involved in the killing of two shopkeepers have been handed over to authorities in central Ghor province, governor said. Talking to AIP on Friday, Governor of Ghor Dr. Muhammad Ibraheem said that the soldiers had killed two shopkeep...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Two Afghan soldiers were killed on Friday when a high official of a Turkish company was attacked in southern Zabul province, official confirmed. Provincial security chief Ghulam Jillani told AIP this evening that the incident took place on Kandahar-Zabul highway, about 10 kilomet...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban launched an attack on Shinwar district headquarters in eastern Nangarhar province last night. Reports reaching here from Shinwar, Nangarhar province said that some unknown persons attacked Nazyan district, which continued for an hour. One Mulla Muhammad Saeed who purporte...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Unidentified armed men fired rockets at a school in southeastern Paktika province last night, eyewitnesses said. They said that gunmen fired rockets at the building of the school in Janak Khil village, Zarmat area in Paktika province last night. The eyewitnesses added that at leas...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban on Wednesday claimed that they burned two election offices in Logar province last night. A statement issued by Taliban spokesman Hamid Agha was released to newspapers in Peshawar yesterday said that the offices had been set up at Althmoor and Hisarak areas to register vot...

PESHAWAR (AIP): A Pakistani national has been detained on charges of having explosives in eastern Nangarhar province yesterday, officials said. Intelligence officials said that Fazl Noor, a resident of Rustom, Mardan was arrested at a restaurant in Jalalabad City and explosive materials were reco...

PESHAWAR (AIP): A person blew himself up when local authorities tried to arrest him in eastern Nangarhar province on Monday. The local radio reported that the dead man was an Arab who allegedly was placing landmines to target a Kabul delegation. According to reports, the delegation headed by a hig...

PESHAWAR (AIP): US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Wednesday paid a short visit to Jalalabad. Mr. Rumsfeld reached Jalalabad City this afternoon and held meetings with Governor Deen Muhammad, Police Chief Hazrat Ali and other high ranking officials. However, he neither talked to newsmen...