HERAT (AIP): As many as 50 Afghan and Iranian workers, working on the construction of a rail track from Iran to Afghanistan, are stranded in the Ghoryan district of Heart province due to heavy snowfall and downpours, an official said Monday (Jan. 07)...

KABUL (AIP): An Afghan was detained on suspicion of planting a mine in southern Kandahar province Saturday (Jan 5) by Afghan National Army (ANA) troops, said a press statement released by Afghan Defense Ministry on Sunday. The statement said a man wa...

HERAT (AIP): The Afghan police clashed with alleged kidnappers of an Afghan doctor in western Herat province, killing two of the kidnappers and detaining seven more, police said Sunday. Police chief of southwestern zone, General Ikramuddin Yawar,...

KANDAHAR (AIP): A man was killed when his car struck a mine planted under a small bridge in southern Helmand province today morning, police said Sunday. A police official Mohammad Hussain Andiwal told AIP that the incident took place in Greshak d...

KABUL (AIP): A former Taliban commander Saturday (Jan. 05) claimed he escaped from the lockup of intelligence department in Kabul yesterday by paying bribe. While talking to Afghan Islamic Press, Mulla Naqibullah who claimed to be a former Taliban...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Director of Helmand health department, Dr. Inayatullah Saturday rejected reports of the outbreak of measles disease in the province. There were reports that approximately 30 children were killed by the outbreak of measles or such like...

KABUL (AIP): A suspected kidnapper and an alleged thief was rounded up by anti-crimes police personnel in Kabul, police said Saturday (Jan. 05). A statement issued by the office of anti-crimes police said the suspected kidnapper, Aziz Ahmad was de...

KHOST (AIP): Afghan officials distributed aid goods among 550 families who migrated to Paktia province from the Kurram Agency, a tribal district of Pakistan, due to bloody sectarian clashes. Governor of Paktia province, Juma Khan Hamdarad told Afg...

QALAT (AIP): Taliban seized two vehicles of Word Food Programme (WFP) loaded with wheat in Ghazni province yesterday (Jan. 03), police said Friday. The WFP vehicles were on way to Qarabagh district from Ghazni City when intercepted them in the Lew...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Police killed four Taliban and detained 11 others in the southern Kandahar province last night, governor said Friday (Jan. 04). Governor Kandahar Asadullah Khalid told Afghan Islamic Press that the operation was conducted in the Na...