KUNDUZ (AIP): A traffic accident left four people dead and 26 others wounded today (April 20) in Takhar province, an official said Tuesday. The incident happened in Kalafgan district when a passenger bus coming to Badakhshan province from Takhar c...

MAZAR SHARIF (AIP): A mild earthquake hit northern Afghanistan last night, killing at least seven people and wounding 15 more, police said Monday (April 19). The quake with the intensity of 5.3 struck Ravi Duab, Dara Sauf Bala and Dara Sauf Payan...

KABUL (AIP): A team of Wolesi Jirga led by its speaker Muhammad Younus Qanooni held in-camera meeting with President Hamid Karzai today (April 19) on proposed controversial electoral law. Talking to journalists after the meeting which lasted for o...

KABUL (AIP): A soldiers of Afghan National Army (ANA) was killed and three more wounded in an explosion today (April 19) near Khwaja Rawash Airport in capital Kabul, defence ministry said Monday. The ANA soldiers were busy in getting training of h...

GHAZNI (AIP): Afghan and foreign forces killed 13 Taliban and a local civilian earlier today (April 19) in Ghazni province, police said Monday. Combined force raided a house in Begikhel area of Qarabagh district, killing 13 suspected Taliban inclu...

KABUL (AIP): A soldier of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was killed and several other wounded today (April 19) in an explosion at base of Afghan National Army (ANA) in Kabul, ISAF said Monday. The ISAF died following an explosion a...

KABUL (AIP): A policeman was killed yesterday (April 17) when bomb he was defusing went off in Zehri district of Kandahar, interior ministry said Sunday. The policemen defused two mines and was trying to neutralize the third mine in the limits of...

MAZAR SHARIF (AIP): At least two passers-by were killed and 13 more wounded in an explosion today (April 18) in northern Faryab province, governor said Sunday. Abdul Haq Shafaq, governor of Faryab province, told Afghan Islamic Press that the exp...

KABUL (AIP): Counter-narcotics police seized huge quantity of opium yesterday (April 17) in Desho district of Helmand province, interior ministry claimed Sunday. The interior ministry said in a statement that police recovered 3000 kg of processed opi...

KABUL (AIP): An Afghan female senior official is missing along with five male colleagues for the last several days in Wardak province, reliable source said Sunday. Miss Guldana, director of woman affairs department of Paktiak province, was on way...