KANDAHAR (AIP): Afghan officials and Taliban issued conflicting statements regarding a Taliban attack on a convey of foreign troops in Dai Chopan district of Zabul province. District security in-charge of Dai Chopan, Fazal Bari, told AIP Monday th...

KANDAHAR (AIP): A science and religious education seminary, Sheikh Mati Darul Uloom, was inaugurated in Qalat city, center of Zabul province, yesterday (August 26). Provincial education director of Zabul, Mohammad Nabi Wadan, after opening the sem...

JALALABAD (AIP): Three foreign and two Afghan troops were killed as Taliban attacked a combined convoy in the eastern Kunar province today (Aug. 27), a police officer said Monday. The combined convoy was on way to Naray district from Asadabad, cap...

PESHAWAR: Korea Muslim Federation (KMF) has called upon Taliban to release 19 South Korean hostages saying the release of captives will open new ways of Dawah (preaching Islam) for the Koreans. Talking to Afghan Islamic Press here on Monday (Aug....

KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban and S. Korean officials are meeting in Ghazni tomorrow (Aug. 28) to hold face-to-face talks on the fate of 19 Korean hostages captured by Taliban on 19th August in Ghazni province. Taliban spokesman, Qari Muhammad Yousaf to...

JALALABAD (AIP): Chaparhar district police chief among two received bullet injuries in Ningarhar province when suspected Taliban militants attacked the district headquarters, officials and eyewitnesses said on Sunday (August 26). Residents said t...

KANDUZ (AIP): Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his Tajikistan counterpart Imam Ali Rehman on Sunday (August 26) jointly inaugurated the newly constructed 682 meters long bridge on River Amu. The newly built bridge on River Amu on Abrisham Highway i...

KANDAHAR (AIP): At least eight Taliban militants were killed and four others were injured during a joint clean-up operation conducted by Coalition troops and Afghan police in Kadi Jamrat area of Qarah Bagh district in Ghazni province last night, offi...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Residents of Kobar Kili, Musa Qila district in Helmand province said at least 18 civilians were killed in the airstrike last night (August 26). The residents told AIP that the airstrikes were carried out at two different places,...

KABUL (AIP): Six personnel of Afghan Campaign force were killed and two others wounded in a bomb explosion in Khost province today (Aug. 24), NATO said Friday. The roadside bomb went off near a combined of NATO and Campaign troops in the Shinkai a...