PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban on Saturday claimed responsibility of downing an aircraft of NATO-led ISAF in Kandahar province today (Sept. 02). Spokesman of Taliban fighters, Dr. Muhammad Hanif, phoned the office of Afghan Islamic Press from and unknown...

KABUL (AIP): Afghan President Hamid Karzai expressed his deep sorrow and grief over the crash of a NATO aircraft in Kandahar. In a press statement issued late Saturday from his office, the President expressed his heartfelt sympathies and deep sorr...

KABUL (AIP): A chain of four improvised explosive devices were discovered and destroyed by Coalition forces in Paktika Province on Aug. 31, says a press release issued here on Friday (September 1). It said the first IED was discovered on the side o...

KANDAHAR (AIP): A vehicle of British troops was badly damaged in a roadside bomb blast in Helmand province last night, an ISAF official said Friday (Sept. 01). Spokesman of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Kandahar, Maj. Malcolm Inn...

KABUL (AIP): In another attack on a school, extremists used an improvised explosive device to damage the Malekshay School in the Bermel District of Paktika Province on Sept. 1, says a press release issued here on Friday. It said the munition cause...

KABUL (AIP): Police rounded up three alleged kidnappers who attempted to kidnap the head of a foreign non-governmental organization in Zaranj, capital of Nimroz province yesterday (August 31), interior ministry said Thursday. Four armed gunmen tri...

KHOST (AIP): Two people were killed and four others wounded as bomb went off inside a house in Khost province yesterday (August 30), a security official said Thursday. The incident was happened in Khooni Khwar area of northeastern part of Khost ci...

KANDAHAR (AIP): A suicide bomber attacked a police convoy in Zabul province today (August 31) but there were no details of the casualties, eyewitnesses said. An eyewitness told Afghan Islamic Press that incident was happened between Qalat and Shajo...

JALALABAD (AIP): A bomb was exploded near two fuel tankers, parked at a distance of few hundreds kilometers of the office of Disbandment of Illegal Armed Groups (DIAG) in Jalalabad city on Thursday, a security official said. A security official of...

KABUL (AIP): A joint patrol of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and Afghan National Army (ANA) was attacked in Kunduz province last night, Taliban and ISAF said Thursday (August 31). Taliban fighters attacked a joint patrol of ISAF a...