KABUL (AIP): A soldier of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was killed and several other wounded today (April 19) in an explosion at base of Afghan National Army (ANA) in Kabul, ISAF said Monday. The ISAF died following an explosion a...

KABUL (AIP): A policeman was killed yesterday (April 17) when bomb he was defusing went off in Zehri district of Kandahar, interior ministry said Sunday. The policemen defused two mines and was trying to neutralize the third mine in the limits of...

MAZAR SHARIF (AIP): At least two passers-by were killed and 13 more wounded in an explosion today (April 18) in northern Faryab province, governor said Sunday. Abdul Haq Shafaq, governor of Faryab province, told Afghan Islamic Press that the exp...

KABUL (AIP): Counter-narcotics police seized huge quantity of opium yesterday (April 17) in Desho district of Helmand province, interior ministry claimed Sunday. The interior ministry said in a statement that police recovered 3000 kg of processed opi...

KABUL (AIP): An Afghan female senior official is missing along with five male colleagues for the last several days in Wardak province, reliable source said Sunday. Miss Guldana, director of woman affairs department of Paktiak province, was on way...

KABUL (AIP): Afghan officials say Taliban attacks have increased last week across Afghanistan. Zamaray Bashari, spokesman of interior ministry, told a press conference here on Sunday that as many as 144 attacks were recorded last month in differen...

KABUL (AIP): Italian and Afghan workers of a medical NGO who were detained in Lashkargah, capital of Helmand province, on charges of plotting to assassinate provincial governor Muhammad Gulab Mangal a few days back were released today (April 18), Afg...

KABUL (AIP): President Hamid Karzai on Saturday appointed new governors of Paktia and Dai Kundi provinces on the recommendation of department of regional organs. The Department of Regional Organs announced that Mohibullah Samim and Qurban Ali Oruz...

GHAZNI (AIP): Three soldiers of Afghan National Army (ANA) were injured today (April 17) during a clash with Taliban in Qarabagh district of Ghazni province, an official said Saturday. The clash erupted after Taliban attacked an ANA post in Nauroz...

KABUL (AIP): President Hamid Karzai on Saturday appointed Maulvi Fazl Ahmad Maanavi as new chief of Independent Election Commission of Afghanistan. Maulvi Fazl Ahmad Maanavi was former deputy chief of Supreme Court of Afghanistan. Waheed Omar,...