KABUL (AIP): Nine suspected Taliban were killed and several others injured in separate operations in Zabul and Paktika provinces, ISAF said Tuesday. Afghan and international security forces conducted raid on a house in Barmal district of Paktika...

KABUL (AIP): Taliban on Tuesday claimed that Taliban inflicted casualties on foreign forces during clashes in southern Helmand province today (March 30). Taliban spokesman Qari Muhammad Yousuf Ahmadi told Afghan Islamic Press that fierce clashes t...

KABUL (AIP): German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere, and his Afghan counterpart, Muhammad Haif Atmar, visited northern Kunduz province today (March 29). Local official said Monday that the German interior minister is expected to meet German t...

HERAT (AIP): A soldier of Afghan National Army (ANA) gunned down a tribal elder in western Herat province today (March 29), a spokesman said Monday. Abdul Rauf Ahmadi, spokesman of Herat police told Afghan Islamic Press that Gul Badshah was travel...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Personnel of Afghan Border Police (ABP) recovered 700 kg of hashish from a car and arrested two persons in southern Kandahar province yesterday (March 28), an ABP officer said Monday. Abdul Razzaq, a high-ranking officer of ABP in...

KABUL (AIP): A high-ranking commander of Afghan Border Police (ABP) escaped unhurt while two border policemen sustained injuries during an attack on their convoy on Kabul-Jalalabad highway today (March 29), an ABP official said Monday. A police...

KABUL (AIP): Eight people, including two foreign nationals, were apprehended while huge quantity of explosives were seized during separate operations in different provinces of Afghanistan yesterday (March 28), defense and interior ministries said Mon...

KABUL (AIP): Scores of protestors on Monday (March 29) blocked Kabul-Mazar-e-Sharif highway for several hours to protest against governor of Parwan province who they claimed had occupied their land. The demonstrators belonging to Barikab area of...

KABUL (AIP): Office of the attorney general has confirmed the arrest of a former minister for Hajj and Auqaf by Interpol in London. An official of Attorney General office told Afghan Islamic Press that former minister Muhammad Saddiq Chakri had b...

KUNDUZ (AIP): Taliban on Sunday (March 28) claimed that two policemen were killed in an attack in Badakhshan province last night (March 27), but provincial police chief rejected the claim. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told Afghan Islamic...