HERAT (AIP): Unidentified motorcycle riders shot dead five people in Farah province yesterday, police said Tuesday (Oct. 17). Two motorcyclists opened indiscriminate firing at a vehicle traveling in by a local elder Abdul Ghafar and his sons in th...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Two policemen were injured as two unknown gunmen opened firing on district chief in Kandahar today (Oct. 17), police said Tuesday. In-charge of Miansheen district, Shadi Jan, was attacked by unidentified gunmen after he left the pr...

JALALABAD (AIP): Afghan and foreign forces raided different shops and houses in eastern Ningarhar province yesterday (Oct. 16) and recovered 120 kilograms of opium, a member of provincial council said Tuesday (Oct. 17). The raid was conducted in S...

KABUL (AIP): ISAF and Coalition forces conducted an air-strike on Taliban leadership Uruzgan province in early hours today (Oct. 17), killing 10 to 16 fighters including a commander, a statement of ISAF said Tuesday. The statement said the aircraf...

KHOST (AIP): Soldiers of Afghan National Army killed 26 fighters during a gun-battle in Paktika province today (Oct. 17), an ANA commander said Tuesday. Commander Afghan National Army in Paktika, Gul Muhammad told Afghan Islamic Press that a heavy...

HERAT (AIP): Police recovered three Iranians during an operation against kidnappers in Farah province today (Oct. 17), police said Tuesday.  A string of operations were conducted in Shiwan area of Farah province on prior information about the p...

KANDAHAR (AIP): A suicide bomber blew up his explosive laden vehicle near a convoy of foreign troops in Kandahar city today, killing four passers-by and wounding three others, interior ministry and eyewitnesses said Monday. Press office of the inter...

KABUL (AIP): A police commander was killed and five other policemen were wounded in a roadside bomb blast in troubled Helmand province yesterday, interior ministry said Monday (Oct. 16). The vehicle of a police commander struck a landmine as polic...

KANDAHAR (AIP): A soldier of NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was wounded in a suicide car bomb attack in Kandahar today (Oct. 06), an ISAF spokesman said Monday (Oct. 16). Spokesman of ISAF in Kandahar, Maj. Morell, confirm...

KABUL (AIP): A minor child was killed in a roadside bomb explosion in Badakhshan yesterday, sources said Monday (Oct. 16). Informed sources told Afghan Islamic Press that a roadside bomb detonated near a vehicle Provincial Reconstruction Team in S...