KHOST (AIP): Taliban late on Thursday night (Feb. 11) claimed that about 20 foreign troops were killed and injured in a suicide attack in Paktia province. A Taliban spokesman told Afghan Islamic Press that the attack was carried out by one Muhamm...

KABUL (AIP): Death toll in snow-slide in the Salang Pass, Parwan province, has risen to 157 as rescue workers continued operation on second day (Feb. 10), interior ministry said Wednesday. Zamaray Bashari, spokesman of interior ministry, told a pr...

KABUL 9AIP): Taliban and Hezb-e-Islami Hekmatyar have claimed Wednesday (Feb. 10) that their fighters inflicted heavy casualties on foreign forces in different areas of Afghanistan yesterday. ISAF, however, refuted the claims as false. Walullah, s...

KABUL (AIP): Death toll in snow-slide in the Salang Pass, Parwan province, has risen to 166 as rescue workers continued operation on the second day (Feb. 10), interior ministry said Wednesday. Zamaray Bashari, spokesman of interior ministry, told...

KABUL (AIP): Afghanistan will hold Loya Jirga (Grand meeting) on different issues including reconciliation offer to Taliban in the month of May, president's spokesman said Wednesday (Feb. 10). Waheed Omar, spokesman of the Afghan president, told a...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban on Wednesday (Feb. 10) claimed they had killed and wounded 15 Afghan and foreign troops during an attack on combined force in the Barmal district of Paktika province. Taliban ambushed combined forces in the Marghai area of...

LASHKARGAH (AIP): Afghan officials distribute aid goods to flood affected people in Lashkargah, capital of Helmand province Wednesday (Feb. 10). The relief goods including tents, ghee, rice, flour etc were provided by Red Cross and distributed by Afg...

LASHKARGAH (AIP): Flash floods triggered by torrential rains left a gypsy man dead and two others wounded in Lashkargah, capital of Helmand province last night (Feb. 08), an official said Tuesday. Ghulam Farooq Noorzai, chief of provincial refugee...

KHOST (AIP): Some 68 uplift projects were completed in different parts of southeastern Khost province, an official said Tuesday. Addressing a press conference, Engineer Omer Areen, chief of rural uplift department in Khost said that the schemes we...

HERAT (AIP): Police arrested two persons and recovered 62kg crystal from their possession in Ghorban district of western Herat province today (Feb. 09), police said Tuesday. Dilawar Shah Dilawar, security in-charge of provincial police department...