KANDAHAR (AIP): A roadside bomb blast left seven police dead in the Zehri district of Kandahar province today (July 02), police said Monday. The police vehicle was blown up with a remote controlled landmine in the Wazir area of Zehri district at approximately 2:00 p.m, provincial police, Sayyed A...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban on Monday (July 02) expressed deep grief and sorrow over the killing of civilians in air strikes by foreign forces in Afghanistan. A statement read to Afghan Islamic Press by Taliban chief spokesman, Abdul Hayee Mutmaen, via phone said, "The number of civilian fatalities i...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Afghan government Sunday said 62 Taliban and 48 civilians were killed in previous night airstrikes by foreign troops in Gereshk district of Helmand province. Helmand Police chief Mohammad Hussain Andiwal acknowledged that 48 civilians had been perished in the strike, adding the n...

KABUL (AIP): Police arrested spokesman of Peace Jirga with three other people in Capital Kabul yesterday (June 30), a local newspaper reported Sunday. The reason of the arrest of Muhammad Asif, Nang is not know but a newspaper from Kabul, (Arman-e-Milli) reported that he was arrested for disclosi...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Foreign forces killed at least 13 suspected Taliban during an airstrike in the southern Helmand province last night, governor said Saturday (June 30). Local residents, however, reported civilians casualties in the bombing. "I have no reports of civilian casualties from Haiderabad...

GHAZNI (AIP): Three children were killed and another wounded in an explosion near Qalat, capital of Zabul province today (June 30), police said Saturday. The children were playing with an old mortar shell when it went off, police chief of Zabul, Muhammad Yaqoob, told Afghan Islamic Press. He s...

JALALABAD (AIP): Taliban attacked a district headquarters in the eastern Noristan province today (June 30), killing one and wounding three policemen, governor said Saturday. Taliban retreated after police returned fire and the blood scattered three shows that they (Taliban) have also suffered cas...

KANDAHAR (AIP): An unknown number of civilians were killed during ground and air operations in the Gereshk district of Helmand province last night, police confirmed Saturday (June 30). "We do not know about the number of casualties as our forces were not part of the operation in Haidarabad area o...

KABUL (AIP): One Afghan national was killed and six other people including two ISAF soldiers were wounded when a suicide car bomb detonated near ISAF convoy in Orgun in Paktika province yesterday (June 28), an ISAF statement said Friday. An interpreter working with ISAF and three Afghan civilians...

KABUL (AIP): Afghan and Coalition forces killed four suspected Taliban and detained 16 in operations early today (June 29) in Sherzad District of Ningarhar, Coalition and Afghan officials said Friday. Coalition forces conducted raids on three separate compounds suspected of harboring Taliban and...