KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban on Friday claimed they had destroyed five NATO vehicles during separate attacks in southern Afghanistan today (March 2). The NATO forces, however, said only two NATO vehicles were damaged. Spokesman of Taliban fighters, Qari Muhammad Yousaf, phoned Afghan Islamic Press and...

HERAT (AIP): Two people were killed and 48 wounded, 10 of them critically, in roadside bomb blast in Farah province today (March 1), a health official said Thursday. Of the 48 injured brought to PRT health facility, ten were children while as many is stated to be in critical condition, Muhammad Qai...

KANDAHAR (AIP): The body of a kidnapped doctor of Ibne Seena NGO was found today (March 1) in Helmand, eyewitnesses said Thursday. Dr. Abdul Shakoor was kidnapped Feb. 5 from Lashkargah, capital of Helmand province but no one had claimed responsibility of his kidnapping. Eyewitnesses told...

HERAT (AIP): Death toll in the Farah City roadside explosion reached to three as a victim succumbed to his injuries in the hospital, police said Thursday. Police chief of western Farah province, Syed Agha Saqib, while talking to Afghan Islamic Press said that another injured of the blast died in...

KHOST (AIP): A commander of border police wounded in a roadside bomb blast in Khost province yesterday (Feb. 28), a security official said Thursday. The incident was happened in the Babrak Tanai area of Khost province close to Pakistan border when a landmine struck a vehicle of border police, a s...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Police recovered 23 different landmines and a strap used in suicide attacks in the last three days in Kandahar, police official said Thursday (March 1). Police also arrested a number people and seized the landmines, said Colonel Rahmatullah, head of anti-crimes police of Kandahar...

HERAT (AIP): Taliban on Thursday (March 1) disassociated themselves from the roadside bomb blast that killed three people and wounded 47 in Farah province and said it might be carried out by the government to defame Taliban. Spokesman of Taliban, Qari Muhammad Yousaf, phoned AIP from an undisclose...

KABUL (AIP): Government has decided to raise power tariff after Uzbekistan government refused to continue providing electricity to Afghanistan on rates earlier agreed between the two countries. The decision was taken during a meeting attended by ministers of different departments of Afghanistan....

KANDAHAR (AIP): Three Taliban were killed and several others wounded during operation conducted by Afghan and foreign troops in Zabul province yesterday (Feb. 28), district chief said Wednesday. The operation was conducted in the Arghandab district after Taliban attacked a joint patrol of Afgha...

JALALABAD (AIP): A traffic mishap claimed two lives on Torgham-Jalalabad highway in eastern Ningarhar province today (Feb. 28), eyewitnesses said Wednesday. A Corolla motorcar collided with a tractor in the Bariqab area 20 kilometers from Jalalabad city, leaving driver of the car and another man...