Note: Updated with Taliban claim of responsibility. KHOST (AIP): A suicide bomber killed three people including a policeman and wounded 18 more today (Dec. 11) in Sharana, capital of Paktika province, governor said Friday. Abdul Qayum Katwazai...

KUNDUZ (AIP): German Defence Ministery Karl-Theodor zu Guttenber arrived on an unannounced visit in northern Kunduz province Friday (Dec. 11) and met local officials and German troops. Press office of German forces in Kunduz province told Afghan I...

KHOST (AIP): An explosion left one person dead and four more wounded in the limits of Khost City, police said Friday. Colonel Guldad Mandozai, crimes investigation police chief, told Afghan Islamic Press that it was magnetic bomb planted in a vehi...

HERAT (AIP): ISAF commander in western zone of Afghanistan yesterday (Dec. 09) laid the foundation stone of a training centre at Herat prison. General Alexander while addressing the groundbreaking ceremony said Ital would deploy 1000 more troops to H...

KUNDUZ (AIP): Authorities in Baghlan province Thursday (Dec. 10) said that some 50 Taliban surrendered to government. Provincial Police Chief Abdul Akbar Andrabi presented the surrendered Taliban before media at the provincial police department....

HERAT (AIP): Five people were killed and four others injured, one of them seriously, today (Dec. 09) in a head-on collision between two vehicles in Ghoryan district of western Herat province, a spokesman said Wednesday. Noor Khan Naikzad, spokesm...

LASHKARGAH (AIP): Afghan defence ministry recently handed over 31 Ranger vehicles to Helmand police department, a high-ranking police official said Wednesday (Dec. 09). Provincial Police Chief Asadullah Sherzad said that 24 vehicles were given to...

JALALABAD (AIP): Students of Ningarhar University took out a protest rally Wednesday (Dec. 09) against the alleged killing of civilians by foreign forces in Mehtarlam, capital of Laghman province. Thousands of students of Ningarhar University took to...

GHAZNI (AIP): Taliban yesterday (Dec. 07) killed an Afghan contractor of foreign forces in Saidabad district of Wardak province, an official said Tuesday. Shahidullah Shahid, spokesman of governor Wardak province, told Afghan Islamic Press the dec...

KABUL (AIP): The US Defense Secretary Robert Gates and British Defense Secretary Ainsworth Robert Willian separately arrived in Afghanistan today (Dec. 08). Talking to media soon after his arrival at Kabul Airport , Robert Gates said he would m...