PESHAWAR (AIP): Two American soldiers were killed and another injured on Saturday morning when their vehicle hit a landmine placed in southeastern Khost province, Taliban claimed. Spokesman of Taliban Lateefullah Hakeemi phoned AIP and said that a US military vehicle was blown up in a landmine ex...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Veteran Afghan poet, scholar and intellectual who died on Wednesday (December 1) was laid to rest on the premises of Kandahar University on Friday. The AIP stinger in Kandahar said that body of great Pashto poet Ustand Abdul Shakoor Rishad was brought to Kandahar from Kabul today (...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Two persons were killed and two others injured in a bomb blast in southern Kandahar province on Friday afternoon, an official said. The official told AIP that the explosion took place at a house at Deh Khwaja, Kandahar City, killing two persons and wounding two more. He believ...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Three soldiers were wounded when a vehicle of Afghan National Army hit a landmine in eastern Kunor province yesterday, sources said. The AIP sources from Asadabad, capital of Kunor province said that three soldiers of National Army injured in a mine explosion at Sarkani district,...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban claimed that they had fired 10 rockets at Khost Airport and destroyed an Afghan forces vehicle in Khost province on Thursday morning. A Taliban spokesman Mufti Lateefullah Hakeemi told AIP that 10 rockets were fired at Khost Airport, which landed inside the area, however,...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Governors and police chiefs of seven Afghan provinces held two-day marathon meetings in central Afghanistan aimed at enhancing cooperation and improving law and order situation in their respective areas. Giving details of the meetings, Governor of Ghazni province Haji Asadullah Kha...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Governor of Nangarhar Deen Muhammad has asked a Pakistani construction company to resume work on Jalalabad-Torkhum Highway as soon as possible. The governor met with Pakistani Council General at Jalalabad on Wednesday. He called on the officials of the company to restart its work...

PESHAWAR (AIP): American forces have released three men and a woman arrested on night between Friday and Saturday some 20-kilometer east of Jalalabad in the Barikab area. Informed sources said the American forces late last night handed over all the three men and a woman to officials of Jalalabad. P...

PESHAWAR (AIP): A delegation of experts Sunday reached Jalalabad from Kabul and has started inspection in three district of Nangarhar province where standing crops, animal and human beings were reportedly affected due to powder spray by US airplanes for destroying poppy crop. Some days ago US airpl...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Deputy police chief of Nangarhar province, Qari Amir Khan Laiwal, has said that identity of the four persons killed by the allied forces during an operation on Saturday in the Barikaab area east of Jalalabad has not been confirmed so far. He told AIP that the dead bodies of these pe...