KABUL (AIP): Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi arrived in Kabul today (Dec. 23) and visited Italian troops in western Afghanistan. A statement issued by ISAF headquarters here on Sunday said Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi met with ISAF Com...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Police have arrested four suspected Afghan nationals in Charsadda suicide attack in which more than 50 people were killed in a mosque in Sherpao village of Charsadda district, NWFP on Friday (Dec 21). Police sources in Peshawar sa...

KABUL (AIP): The Taliban militants ambushed a patrol of Afghan National Army (ANA) troops in southern Kandahar province on Friday (Dec 21), sparking a fierce gunbattle which resulted in killing of ten Taliban fighters, a Defense Ministry statement is...

QALAT (AIP): Police found five unidentified dead bodies in Ghazni province during last two days (Dec 22 and 23), a senior police official said Sunday. Provincial police chief of Ghazni province, Khan Mohammad Mujahid earlier told AIP that three dea...

KHOST (AIP): Three persons of a family including a woman was killed as a roadside bomb hit their vehicle in southeastern Khost province on Sunday (Dec 23), an Afghan official said. The incident occurred at Bak district when the vehicle was hit a mine...

KABUL (AIP): US-led coalition forces with Afghan police support killed at least five Taliban insurgents during a cleanup operation in Urazgan province on Friday morning, a Defense Ministry statement issued here said Sunday. The operation was launc...

KABUL (AIP): French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in Kabul today (Dec. 22) and expected to meet Afghan President Hamid Karzai and French troops, sources said Saturday. The French president accompanied by Defense Minister Herve Morin, Foreign...

KABUL (AIP): Two police personnel were wounded in a mine blast in capital Kabul last night, police said Saturday (Dec. 22). It was not an insurgency related incident as the explosion was caused by a jehad era mine, said Ali Shah Paktiawal, a senio...

PESHAWAR (AIP): At least 50 people including three policemen were killed today (Dec. 21) in a suicide attack on a mosque in Sherpao village of Charsadda district, 25 km from Peshawar where former interior minister Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao was offerin...

JALALABAD (AIP): Two children were killed and another wounded in the eastern Ningarhar province yesterday (Dec. 20)  when a mortar shell they were playing went off, police said Friday. Spokesman of Ningarhar police, Abdul Ghafoor told Afghan Is...