GHAZNI: (AIP): Foiling a smuggling bid, the police Wednesday held two persons, besides seizing huge quantity of opium during search of a vehicle in Geelan district, Ghazni province, official sources said. The Ghazni security chief Khialbaz Sherzi...

HERAT: (AIP): Unidentified people fired hand-grenades at the Sheendand district headquarters building in Herat province last night. However, it did not cause any casualty, official sources said Wednesday. The west zone police spokesman Zbdul Rauf...

JALALABAD: (AIP): The Taliban conducted huge attack on Burg Matal district, Nuristan province, two days back, leaving a cop dead and three injured, official sources said. The Nuristan governor spokesman Jamal-ud-Din Badar Wednesday told Afghan Isl...

KANDAHAR: (AIP): The Taliban shot dead the Miansheen district education department chief near the Ashrafia Madrassa in Kandahar city Tuesday. The Kandahar media office in a press release told Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) the government opponents gun...

KABUL: Afghan Border Police seized more than 100,000 pounds (50 tons) of ammonium nitrate yesterday in the Dand Patan district of Paktia province after stopping a 13-truck convoy that was carrying fertilizer. The convoy was stopped at an Afghan B...

KABUL: (AIP): The president spokesman Waheed Umar Tuesday announced that a new separate institution would be established to cope with the rising corruption in the country. Addressing a press conference at Kabul, he announced creation of a new and...

KABUL: (AIP): The Taliban Tuesday claimed inflicting casualties on foreign troops in separate attacks in various parts of the country. The Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) their supporters conducted landmine bla...

KUNDUZ: (AIP): The Taliban claimed to have shot dead eight foreign troops and injured 11 others, besides destroying their five vehicles during clashes in Khinjan district early Tuesday. The Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told Afghan Islamic...

KUNDUZ (AIP): A roadside bomb killed four volunteers of pro-government tribal militia and wounded three more last night in northern Kunduz province, police said Monday (July 12). Colonel Muhammad Rahim, governor of the Khanabad district of Kunduz...

KABUL (AIP): Three people including two Taliban were killed and four wounded in separate insurgency related incidents in different provinces of Afghanistan, interior ministry said Monday. A loader vehicle struck a mine yesterday (July 11) in Rah...