KABUL (AIP): Afghan President Hamid Karzai has appointed former foreign minister as adviser to security shoora (council). Directives to this effect were issued by the president today (Feb. 21) according to which Dr. Dadfar Rangeen Spanta would be...

KABUL (AIP): Professor Sibghatullah Mujaddidi has withdrawn his resignation as chairman Senate. It is learnt that several Afghan senators went to the home of Mujaddidi and asked him if he did not reverse his decision, they would close the doors of...

KABUL (AIP): Taliban on Sunday claimed that Taliban destroyed a vehicle of foreign forces in eastern Ningarhar province today (Feb. 21), killing four soldiers. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told Afghan Islamic Press that the vehicle was de...

HERAT (AIP): Two persons were killed when a landmine, they were emplacing, went off prematurely in western Herat province last night (Feb. 19), police said Sunday. General Ikramuddin Yawar, police commander in western zone told Afghan Islamic Pres...

HERAT (AIP): Police arrested two persons and seized around 300 bottles of liquor in Chaghcharan city, capital of Ghor province of Afghanistan last night (Feb. 20), a police official said Sunday. Abdul Baqi Nooristani, provincial police chief told...

JALALABAD (AIP): Hezb-e-Islami Gulbadin Hekmatyar and Taliban claimed Friday (Feb. 19) that they had inflicted losses of life and property on foreign forces during separate attacks in Kunar, Logar, Paktia and Khost provinces. Waliullah, a purport...

KABUL (AIP): One policeman was killed and two others sustained injuries last night (Feb. 19) when unknown gunmen attacked their vehicle eastern Ningarhar province, a police spokesman said Saturday. Abdul Ghafoor, spokesman of provincial police dep...

HERAT (AIP): Three persons were killed last night (Feb. 19) when two rival groups exchanged gunfire in western Herat province, police said Saturday. Abdul Rauf Ahmadi, spokesman of police in western zone, told Afghan Islamic Press that the exchang...

KHOST (AIP): Four guards of a private security company were killed in a roadside bomb blast in Paktia province yesterday (Feb. 19), an official said Saturday. Abdul Wali Zadran, chief of Wazadadran district told Afghan Islamic Press that the incid...

LASHKARGAH (AIP): Six police were killed and two others sustained injuries in Taliban attack near Lashkargah, capital of restive Helmand province today (Feb 20), a police official said Saturday. More details to follow