KHOST (AIP): A child was killed and two more wounded today (March 19) in Nadar Shahkot district of Khost province when an unexploded ordnance they were play with went off, a health official said Friday. Amir Badshah, director of Khost health depar...

KABUL (AIP): Taliban on Friday (March 19) claimed they had killed 25 foreign troops during separate attacks in Badghis and Helmand provinces. ISAF, however, said there were no casualties to their troops. Taliban involved in a fierce firefight with...

KABUL (AIP): Director of Ningarhar education department, Muhammad Iqbal Azizi, has been appointed as governor of the neighbouring Laghman province, sources said Thursday. Aziz to replace Lutfullah Mashal who was accused of corruption by media repo...

KABUL (AIP): Taliban on Thursday (March 18) claimed they have fired rockets on Bagram and Jalalabad airports last night causing loss of life and property to foreign forces. Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesman of Taliban, told Afghan Islamic Press that T...

KABUL (AIP): As many as 50 tons of explosive material was seized by combined forces while one person was arrested during a search operation in western Herat province yesterday (March 17), a military commander said Thursday. Zain-ud-Deen Sharifi,...

HERAT (AIP): Around 1500 soldiers graduated from a military academy in western Herat province, a military spokesman said Thursday. Najeebullah Najeebi, spokesman of 207 Zafar Army Corps told Afghan Islamic Press that foreign and Afghan trainers i...

JALALABAD (AIP): Foreign and Afghan forces killed four suspected Taliban during a joint raid in eastern Kunar province last night (March 17), a senior police official said Thursday. Police chief of Kunar province commander Khalilullah Ziayee told...

KHOST (AIP): A soldier of Afghan National Army was killed and another wounded in an explosion in Barmal district of Paktika province today (March 18), a spokesman said Thursday. Mukhlis, spokesman of Paktika governor told Afghan Islamic Press tha...

KABUL (AIP): Two school buildings were inaugurated in Kapisa provinces today (March 18), it is learnt. According to detail, one school is located in Shehbazkhel area of Muhammad Raqi, the provincial capital while another school was situated in Ko...

KABUL (AIP): Afghan and ISAF forces seized huge quantity of narcotics during two separate actions in Farah and Helmand provinces, ISAF claimed Wednesday. Joint Afghan-ISAF patrols discovered two significant drug caches in the Bakwah district of Fa...