KABUL (AIP): A high-ranking commander of Afghan Border Police (ABP) escaped unhurt while two border policemen sustained injuries during an attack on their convoy on Kabul-Jalalabad highway today (March 29), an ABP official said Monday. A police...

KABUL (AIP): Eight people, including two foreign nationals, were apprehended while huge quantity of explosives were seized during separate operations in different provinces of Afghanistan yesterday (March 28), defense and interior ministries said Mon...

KABUL (AIP): Scores of protestors on Monday (March 29) blocked Kabul-Mazar-e-Sharif highway for several hours to protest against governor of Parwan province who they claimed had occupied their land. The demonstrators belonging to Barikab area of...

KABUL (AIP): Office of the attorney general has confirmed the arrest of a former minister for Hajj and Auqaf by Interpol in London. An official of Attorney General office told Afghan Islamic Press that former minister Muhammad Saddiq Chakri had b...

KUNDUZ (AIP): Taliban on Sunday (March 28) claimed that two policemen were killed in an attack in Badakhshan province last night (March 27), but provincial police chief rejected the claim. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told Afghan Islamic...

LASHKARGAH (AIP): Mine explosion and Taliban attack left three workers of a security company dead while six vehicles destroyed in southern Helmand province yesterday (March 27), a police official said Sunday. A high-ranking official of Helmand pol...

KABUL (AIP): Police foiled a bid to abduct a pro-government prayer leader and killed an alleged kidnapper in Logar province today (March 28), interior ministry said Sunday. According to a statement issued by the interior ministry said that severa...

KABUL (AIP): Personnel of anti-terrorism department of the interior ministry apprehended three suspected terrorists in Parwan province, a spokesman said Sunday. Speaking at a press conference here on Sunday (March 28), Brigadier Abdul Razzaq Amee...

KABUL (AIP): US President Barack Obama has arrived in Afghanistan on a surprise visit. Well informed sources told Afghan Islamic Press that President Barack Obama met with President Hamid Karzai at the presidential palace. It is learnt that th...

KABUL (AIP): Acting Health Minister Suraya Dalil Sunday said that efforts were being made to improve the condition of state-run hospital in the country. She said this while addressing the annual function held by donor agencies in Kabul today (Marc...