KANDAHAR (AIP): Three people were killed and ten others injured when a passenger vehicle turned turtle in Herat yesterday. A doctor of Herat city hospital told AIP that a passenger vehicle overturned yesterday in Kotal Yar Muhammad area of  Farsi district of Herat province which left three peop...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Two persons were killed and two injured in a landmine explosion in Helmand province on Saturday, official said.Dil Jan, district police chief of Sangeen, Helmand, while giving details to Afghan Islamic Press said: "A police officer Muhammad Ibrahim was going to his home when two loca...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban fighters claimed kidnapping an Indian engineer of an Indian company along with three local workers in Southern Nimroz province on Saturday.Qari Muhammad Yousuf, Taliban fighters' spokesman told Afghan Islamic Press by satellite phone that they also took away the vehicle of th...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban claimed killing five people in an attack on district police chief in Paktika province on Tuesday.Taliban spokesman Doctor Muhammad Hanif told Afghan Islamic Press that Taliban attacked the vehicle of police chief of Omna district in Kinawi area of Katwaz district in Paktika p...

PESHAWAR (AIP): The political authorities of Kurram Agency, Pakistan, demolished about 40 houses of Afghan refugees during the last two days.The houses were demolished with bulldozers in old Afghan refugee camps of Arakhil and Marokhil situated in Parachinar, headquarters of Kurram Agency.Local offi...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Two consecutive bomb explosions took place near governor house in Herat on Wednesday overnight having no causality.A resident of Herat city told Afghan Islamic Press that the first blast occurred near a high school and another near to the Education department of Herat. He said both t...

KABUL (AIP): vehicle borne improvised explosive device detonated near a US military convoy in Kandahar killing one Afghan civilian and destroying a civilian flat-bed truck this morning, says a press release issued by coalition forces on Wednesday. The car bomb, which killed its driver, det...

JALALABAD (AIP): Eastern Nooristan and Northern Logar provinces also elected members for the Masharano Jerga (Senate).According to details the provincial council members of Nooristan elected two members for the Masharano Jerga in their meeting. Haji Sheer Muhammad Nooristani was elected as permanent...

KANDAHAR (AIP): A policeman was killed in an attack by Taliban guerillas in Kandahar, but Taliban claimed killing five policemen in the same attack last night.

KANDAHAR (AIP): Unidentified people hurled hand grenades at three houses in Kandahar in wee hours of Monday, injuring two people including a pro-government prayer leader.While confirming the report, spokesman of Interior Ministry, Muhammad Yousaf Satanezai told Afghan Islamic Press that some anti-go...