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 fo...

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...

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 se...

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 i...

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. Ac...

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 of...

PESHAWAR (AIP): At least four persons were killed in a bomb explosion in western Herat province on Sunday morning, eyewitnesses said. They told AIP that the blast took place at square in the city, leaving four persons dead and more than 30 wounded...

PESHAWAR (AIP): One Afghan soldier was killed in Taliban attack in southern Helmund province on Friday, an official said. Security in-charge of Helmund General Dad Muhammad Khan told AIP today evening that the Taliban attacked Semenar security post...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban on Friday claimed to have made captive 10 government soldiers in Zabul province. Lateefullah Hakeemi, spokesman of Taliban, told AIP today that Afghan soldiers were captured at Meezana district when they were about to laun...

PESHAWAR (AIP): At least 11 people were killed and several others injured in a traffic accident in Zabul province on Thursday morning, police sources said. Police chief of Shahra-e-Safa district Ghulam Rasool told AIP that a Kandahar-bound bus was o...