LASHKARGAH (AIP): Afghan and foreign forces have killed 32 Taliban during operation last night in the Nad Ali district of Helmand, an official said Thursday (Feb. 04). The major operation was jointly conducted against Taliban in the villages of Shin...

KUNDUZ (AIP): Tajikistan handed over about 81 detainees to Afghan authorities under an agreement between the two neighbouring countries here, an official said Thursday. The prisoners were handed over to Azizullah Sahak, deputy justice minister at She...

KUNDUZ (AIP): Armed men attacked a convoy of Afghan National Army (ANA) in northern Baghlan province today (Feb. 04), however, an attacker was killed when troops returned fire, an ANA officer said Thursday. Abdul Wakeel Ihsas, an ANA officer in K...

HERAT (AIP): A Taliban ambushed a police patrol in Nimroz province last night, killing a police officer, police said Wednesday (Feb. 03). Abdul Jabar Purdali, police chief of Nimroz province, told Afghan Islamic Press that Taliban attacked border...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Afghan government and international forces have vowed to improve security and implement uplift plans in the troubled Helmand province. Addressing a joint press conference last yesterday (Feb. 02) in Kandahar Afghan Interior Minister M...

HERAT (AIP): Taliban fired two rockets on Herat Airport last night, causing no loss of life or property, an official said Tuesday (Feb. 02). One of the rockets, landed near dining room of the airport at approximately 10:30 p.m. local time last nig...

HERAT (AIP): Two people were killed and several others missing as avalanches struck houses in Ghor province yesterday (Feb. 01), killing two people dead, deputy governor said Tuesday. Ikramuddin Razazada, deputy governor of Ghor province, told Afg...

KHOST (AIP): Combined forces detained 13 suspected people during a search operation in southeastern Khost province last night (Feb. 01), an ANA officer said Tuesday. General Zaheer Wardak, a high ranking officer of Army National Army in Khost told...

KABUL (AIP): Counter-narcotics police destroyed two drug laboratories in Badakhshan province, interior ministry said Tuesday. The interior ministry quoted deputy interior ministry General Muhammad Daud Daud as saying that the heroin factories were...

KABUL (AIP): Afghan President Hamid Karzai has left for Saudi Arabia along with a high level delegation to discuss peace offer to Taliban which he made at London moot. President Karzai will seek the help of King Abdullah to hold peace talks with...