KABUL (AIP): A soldier of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was killed yesterday (Feb. 24) in an explosion in southern Afghanistan, the NATO-led force said Thursday. The ISAF soldier died in an improvised Explosive Device (IED) attack...

HERAT (AIP): A roadside bomb explosion left a man dead and another wounded today (Feb. 25) in the Dilaram district of western Nimroz province, police said Thursday. Abdul Jabbar Purdali, provincial police chief, told Afghan Islamic Press that the...

JALALABAD (AIP): A vehicle supplying oil to foreign forces was destroyed in an attack last night in the Batikot district of eastern Ningarhar province, eyewitnesses said Thursday (Feb. 25). Passengers who arrived Jalalabad, capital of Ningarhar pr...

HERAT (AIP): Police seized 40 kg opium after a brief clash with alleged smugglers in Lash Joyand district of Farah province last night (Feb. 24), police said Thursday. Muhammad Faqir Askar, provincial police chief told Afghan Islamic Press that t...

KABUL (AIP): A NATO spokesman has said that 40,000 soldiers, including 30,000 US service members would soon arrive in Afghanistan. This he said while addressing a joint press conference along with General Muhammad Tahir Azeemi, spokesman of inter...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Unidentified gunmen shot dead provincial director of information and culture today (Feb. 24) in Kandahar City, police said Wednesday. The gunmen riding a motorcycle opened fire in Abdul Majeed Babai in Bamezai area of Kandahar City...

KUNDUZ (AIP): Taliban on Wednesday (Feb. 24) claimed they had killed four police last night in northern Takhar province. Taliban blew up a police vehicle in a roadside bomb attack last night in Yangi Qala district of Tarkhar province, killing four...

KUNDUZ (AIP): A Taliban commander, who joined the government, was injured along with his associate in a clash with Taliban in Chahar Dara district of northern Kunduz province yesterday (Feb. 23), officials said Wednesday. Mehboobullah Saeedi, spok...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Pakistan has decided to hand over Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar to Afghanistan. This announcement, according to Pakistan media, was made by Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik during a joint press conference along with his Afghan co...

HERAT (AIP): Afghan Border Police (ABP) seized 85 kg narcotics during a clash with alleged smugglers in Kang district of western Herat province last night (Feb. 23), a police official said Wednesday. Abdul Aziz Ayyar, a local ABP officer told Afg...