HERAT (AIP): Afghan and foreign forces detained 19 suspected Taliban in Bala Baluk district of Farah province yesterday (Jan. 01), a military commander said Saturday. General Syed Akram Samay, commander of 207 Zafar army corps told Afghan Islamic...

LASHKARGAH (AIP): Afghan President Hamid Karzai has urged the youths of restive Helmand province to join armed forces so that they could be able to undertake security responsibility in their region. The president stated this while addressing a gather...

KABUL (AIP): The chief officer of Independent Election Commission of Afghanistan (IEC) announced on Saturday (Jan. 02) a parliamentary vote would be held in May despite widespread international concerns about the system reforms. According to a st...

PESHAWAR (AIP): A US drone strike and suicide bombing left over 80 dead and several others wounded in NWFP province of Pakistan in the last 24 hours. Local authorities said that a suicide bomber rammed his explosive laden vehicle into a football s...

LASHKARGAH (AIP): Police recovered 90 kilograms of drugs from a passenger vehicle in southern Helmand province yesterday (Dec. 31), an official said Friday. Muhammad Daud Ahmadi, spokesman of governor Helmand, told Afghan Islamic Press that the d...

KABUL (AIP): A soldier from United States died yesterday (Dec. 31) of non-battle related injuries in eastern Afghanistan, ISAF said Friday. The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) would not disclose further details of the incid...

JALALABAD (AIP): Protest demonstrations were held on Wednesday (Dec. 30) in Kabul and Nangarhar province against civilian casualties in the operations of foreign forces in Afghanistan. Students of Nangarhar University staged a protest demonstratio...

KABUL (AIP): An interesting situation was observed when ISAF and ANA spokesmen at the same press conference had conflicting viewpoints about Kunar incident which left 10 civilians, including schoolchildren, dead. Addressing a joint press conferenc...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Unknown men stabbed seven seminary students to death at a mosque in Tareen Kot, capital of Uruzgan province last night (Dec. 30), Thursday. Haji Rehmatullah, chief of provincial education department while giving details to Afghan...

LASHKARGAH (AIP): Governor of Helmand province Muhammad Gulab Mangal inaugurated the newly constructed building of agricultural school at Bolan area here on Thursday (Dec. 31). A ceremony to this effect was held in the provincial metropolis which...