HERAT (AIP): Taliban once again overran the Gulistan district of western Farah province last night, a police officer said Tuesday (Oct. 30). Over 100 Taliban attacked the headquarters of Gulistan district and captured it when police retreated after two hours of firefight, said General Ikramuddin...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Afghan and international forces killed and wounded over 40 Taliban during an operation in the southern Kandahar province last night, police said Tuesday (Oct. 30). The operation was conducted in Arghandab district after Taliban captured two areas, said General Sayyed Agha Saqib, p...

KANDAHAR (AIP): A mine explosion left three people wounded in Ghazni City today (Oct. 29), police said Monday. The remote controlled landed mine detonated in a bus stand in Ghazni city at approximately 1:00 p.m. local time, injured a woman, a child and a man critically, police chief of Ghazni Ali...

KABUL (AIP): Afghan National Army and NATO forces killed and wounded 50 Taliban in Uruzgan province yesterday (Oct. 28), defence ministry said Monday. The ANA and NATO forces jointly conducted the operation in the Balochi area of Uruzgan province in which 13 opponents, a word government officials...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban on Monday (Oct. 29) claimed they had killed 10 police in an attack on a supply convoy of foreign forces in the central Ghazni province last night. The supply convoy was attacked on Kabul-Kandahar highway in Qarabagh area in which four logistic vehicles and two police vehicle...

KABUL (AIP): One Coalition forces member died of wounds sustained from an improvised explosive device strike while escorting an Afghan convoy delivering supplies for Afghan National Army Forces this morning (Oct. 29) in Sangin District, Helmand Province. A statement issued by coalition forces M...

PESHAWAR (AIP): The UNHCR facilitated voluntary returning process of Afghan refugees from Pakistan will stop on Wednesday (Oct. 31) for the usual winter break this year, a UNHCR statement said Monday (Oct. 29). The statement advised Afghan returnees not to approach the UNHCR Voluntary Repatriatio...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Police escaped unhurt as Taliban attacked their vehicles in Ghazni province last night, police chief said Monday (Oct. 29). Police chief of Gahzni, General Ali Shah Ahmadzai told Afghan Islamic Press that the police vehicles were attacked in Andar district but did not cause any da...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Three rockets fired from unknown place hit the capital of North West Frontier Province, but caused no significant damage or injuries, police said Sunday. The rockets were fired before dawn, one of them hit the house of a politician Bashir Ahmad Bilour of Awami National Party (A...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Afghan National Army and Coalition forces killed ten Taliban fighters and injured five others during a joint operation in Kandahar province Saturday afternoon (Oct 27), police said Sunday. The operation was conducted in Khak Shereen area of Shah Wali Kot district. A Coalition...