JALALABAD (AIP): Police discovered and defused 12 rockets planted in Khairkhelo area of Laghman province, police officials said on Sunday (Oct.8). Rockets were planted for targeting a base of Chinese company stationed in the area for the construction of a road, the officials said. But they were d...

HERAT (AIP): Unidentified gunmen shot dead four people including a tribal elder and his three nephews in Herat province Sunday (Oct. 08), a district official said. Elder of Raheen tribe, Abdul Baseer and his relatives were buying something in the bazaar when they were attacked by unknown gunmen b...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban abducted two Pakistanis, working for a road construction company, in Kandahar Sunday (Oct. 08), local official said. The workers were conducted survey of a road in Dand district near Kandahar city today (Oct. 08) when they were attacked by Taliban, local officials informed...

JALALABAD (AIP): Police discovered and defused three landmines planted at a roadside in Kabul province last night, district police chief said Saturday (Oct. 07). Three anti personnel landmines had been placed by unidentified people at a roadside in Drey Sar area of Saroobi district which were rec...

KABUL (AIP): An ISAF soldier was killed following an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) strike and small arms fire in the Panjwayi district of Kandahar Province in the early hours of Saturday (Oct. 07) morning, an ISAF statement said. It said the incident occurred near to an ISAF patrol base durin...

KHOST (AIP): A suicide bomber detonated his explosive laden car near an ISAF military vehicle in Khost province today (Oct. 07), killing himself and damaging ISAF vehicle, police and eyewitnesses said Saturday. The incident was happened 25 kilometers to northeast of Khost city in Yaqoobi distr...

KABUL (AIP) Two German journalists including a male and female were killed by unknown people in Baghlan, interior ministry said Saturday (Oct. 07) Press officer of the interior ministry confirmed to Afghan Islamic Press that "Unidentified people killed two Germans, male and female on the night bet...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban on Saturday (Oct. 07) asked NATO and other foreign troops to leave Afghanistan without delay. This was said by chief spokesman of Taliban fighters Mulla Abadul Hayee Mutmaen in an interview with Afghan Islamic Press on the occasion of the completion of five years of US inva...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban on Saturday accepted responsibility of suicide attack in Khost province, saying that eight ISAF troops were killed in the attack today (Oct. 07). A Talib suicide bomber, hailing from Logar province attacked ISAF patrol in Yaqoobi district of Khost province today, spokesman...

KANDAHAR (AIP): The interior ministry appointed new police chief of Kandahar province today (Oct. 07). Deputy Interior Minister, Abdul Hadi Khalid, announced that General Asmatullah Alizai has been appointed as new police chief of Kandahar. The newly appointed police chief said that police ha...