KABUL (AIP): Afghan Education Ministery Ghulam Farooq Wardak Saturday said that some five million school-age children could not attend schools due to prevailing security situation in the country. He was speaking at a gathering organised in connec...

KANDAHAR (AIP): A heavy explosion happened in southern Kandahar city on Saturday night (March 06), causing no casualties, police said. Ghulam Ali Wahat, a police official in regional zone, told Afghan Islamic Press that the blast did not cause an...

GHAZNI (AIP): Four guards of a security company were wounded yesterday (March. 04) during Taliban attack in the Andar district of Ghazni province, an official said Friday. Muhammad Yousaf Siraji, district chief of Andar, told Afghan Islamic Press...

KUNDUZ (AIP): Four Taliban were detained after Taliban killed a policeman in Baghlan province yesterday (March 04), police said Friday. Ahmad Javed Basharat, spokesman of Baghlan police department, told Afghan Islamic Press that Taliban attacked...

KABUL (AIP): Shiv Shankar Menon, the national security adviser to the Indian prime minister, arrived in Kabul Friday (March 05) and passed on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh message to Afghan President Hamid Karzai. A statement issued by the office...

KUNDUZ (AIP): Heavy floods have destroyed approximately 200 houses and killed dozens of livestock today (March 05) in the northern Baghlan province, an official said Friday. Haqmal, spokesman Baghlan province, told Afghan Islamic Press that the he...

KABUL (AIP): Hezb-e-Islami (Hekmatyar) on Thursday claimed that their fighters destroyed a vehicle of foreign forces in a mine blast (March 04) in eastern Laghman province, killing nine soldiers. ISAF, however, rejected the claims Waliullah, spoke...

HERAT (AIP): Operative of National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Thursday (March 04) seized around 160 kg of crystal and detained seven people in this connection in western Herat province, it is learnt. According to details, NDS personnel condu...

KABUL (AIP): A soldier of Afghan National Army (ANA) was killed yesterday (March. 03) in an explosion in the Nad Ali district of Helmand province, defence ministry said Thursday. Two roadside bombs exploded near a vehicle traveling in by ANA troo...

GHAZNI (AIP): Two persons were killed and 12 others injured when a passenger bus overturned in Maqur district of Ghanzi province yesterday (March 03), police said Thursday. Chief of Ghazni police Khyal Baz Sherzai told Afghan Islamic Press that the i...