KHOST (AIP): A court acquitted four high-ranking officials of Khost province of charges corruption Monday (Feb. 19). The officials including deputy governor Ajab Khan Sangin, director rural development Muhammad Omar Areen, director minerals department, Ghazi Muhammad, deputy mayor, deputy director...

HERaT (AIP): Two people including a driver and a police were killed and over 10 wounded as auto-rickshaw drivers clashed with police in Herat City today (Feb. 19), police said Monday. The rickshaw drivers were protesting against the closure of a road in the City when police opened fire in the air...

KHOST (AIP): A park, exclusively for female, would be constructed in the Khost city. Governor of Khost province Arsala Jamal and women affairs in-charge Roogul Zadran performed the groundbreaking of the park today (Feb. 18) in the city, Khost mayor Eng. Sakhi Ameerullah told Afghan Islamic Press...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Residents said four civilians were killed in an air strike of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) yesterday (Feb. 16) in the Sangin district of Helmand province. However, ISAF said there were no reports of civilian casualties. ISAF aircraft dropped bombs in...

KHOST (AIP): As many as 15000 saplings will be planted in Khost City during the spring tree plantation campaign which started today (Feb. 17). The saplings are being planted at both sides of the road from Khost City to University, said Arsala Jamal, governor of Khost province. It is a voluntar...

KABUL (AIP): Afghan and Coalition forces captured six suspected terrorists during separate raids in Ningarhar and Paktika province Wednesday (Feb. 14) while Talib commander was struck in Helmand province, coalition said late Thursday. Four suspected terrorists were arrested after they refused requ...

HERAT (AIP): Six policemen and an Afghan worker of a non-governmental organization were wounded in a roadside bomb blast in Farah province yesterday (Feb. 15), police said Friday. We were on way to Bakwa district in connection with poppy eradication campaign when a remote controlled land mine str...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Minister for Rural Rehabilitation and Development, Engineer Ahmad Zia has said agreements for 65 reconstruction projects in four districts of Kandahar province has been signed with different companies. This he said while addressing a press conference in the troubled Kandahar provin...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban executed five people in the southern Helmand province on charges of spying for foreign forces, residents said Friday (Feb. 16). Thee people were executed yesterday and two today while three others were picked up on charges of supporting and spying for foreign forces, reside...

KHOST (AIP): Three people were killed and one wounded over petty dispute in the Sabrio district of Khost province yesterday, an official said Thursday (Feb. 15). In-charge of Sabrio district, Gul Qaseem Jehadyar told Afghan Islamic Press that cause of the incident was stated to be familiy dispute...