KHOST (AIP): Taliban shot dead a man in Ismailkhel district of Khost province yesterday (Oct. 27) on charges of spying for foreign forces, an official said Wednesday. Wali Shah Hemmat, district chief of Ismailkhel district while giving details to...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Chief of election commission in Kandahar Abdul Wasey Alkozi said that 42 employees of the commission were dismissed due to multiple reasons. Addressing a press conference here on Wednesday Oct. 28, he said that there were three cat...

KABUL (AIP): General David Petraeus, a high ranking US military official paid a visit to Helmand province today (Oct. 28). It is learnt that General Petraeus visited the biggest base of foreign forces at Shoor Aab area of Greshk district at around...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban attacked a patrol of border police yesterday (Oct. 26) in Zabul province, killing five policemen, an official said Tuesday. Colonel Abdur Raziq, an officer of border police in southwestern zone, told Afghan Islamic Press th...

KUNDUZ (AIP): Like other parts of the country, residents of Balkh province rallied in provincial capital Tuesday (Oct. 27) against the alleged desecration of Holy Quran by foreign forces in Wardak province. The protest rally started from Balkh Uni...

KABUL (AIP): Three Taliban and one policeman were killed during a clash in Ghazni province yesterday evening (Oct. 26), police said Tuesday. The clash took place at Sanjetak area to the east of Ghazni City after Taliban attacked a security post of...

HERAT (AIP): Taliban on Monday (Oct. 26) claimed they had shot down a helicopter of foreign forces in western Badghis province, killing several troops onboard. Qari Muhammad Yousaf Ahmadi, spokesman of Taliban, told Afghan Islamic Press that the h...

KABUL (AIP): Ten Taliban and two soldiers of Afghan National Army (ANA) were killed in two separate incidents of violence in Nimroz and Kandahar provinces yesterday (Oct. 25), defence ministry said Monday. A clash took place in the vicinity of Kha...

KABUL (AIP): Afghan government has promised investigation in killing of civilians by foreign forces on Oct. 24 in southern Kandahar City. Interior ministry in a statement released here on Sunday (Oct. 24) said the incident happened in Chowanai area o...

KABUL (AIP): A US soldier was killed in a roadside bomb attack yesterday (Oct. 24) in southern Afghanistan, ISAF said Sunday. It was the third US soldier killed in southern Afghanistan during the past three days as two US troops among three foreig...