KANDAHAR (AIP): Four Taliban were killed and five others wounded after an attack on foreign troops supply convoy in Kandahar province yesterday (Jan. 14), police said Monday. Provincial police chief, General Sayyed Agha Saqib, told Afghan Islamic Press that Taliban attacked the supply convoy of f...

KABUL (AIP): Two Italian diplomats and a female foreigner were wounded in Taliban suicide, small and heavy weapons attack on a luxurious hotel in Kabul today's evening (Jan. 14), reliable sources said Monday. There were also reports that Norway's Foreign Minster Jonas Gahr Stoere, currently visit...

HERAT (AIP): Iran forced repatriated 400 more Afghan refugees via Islam Qala border today (Jan. 14), Afghan officials said Monday. The fresh repatriated Afghans were staying in the border area of Islam Qala where they were facing numerous problems due to cold and snow, said Shamsuddin Hamid, refu...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Six alleged kidnappers were arrested with ransom money in the Nawa district of Helmand province yesterday (Jan. 13), police claimed Monday. The kidnappers were held while receiving three million rupees as ransom in exchange for releasing one Nazar Muhammad, said Muhammad Hussain A...

JALALABAD (AIP): Police Saturday apprehended a man who was allegedly carrying 26 kilograms of opium in a taxi car during a search operation in eastern Ningarhar province, police said Sunday. A spokesman for provincial police department, Abdul Ghafoor told AIP Sunday that the man had kept opium i...

HERAT (AIP): Police in Herat province Sunday released 70 prisoners from Herat jail in accordance with the President Hamid Karzai announcement during Eidul Azha celebrations. A police officer in Herat, Mohammad Sadiqi told AIP that 60 men and 10 women prisoners were released from Herat jail in li...

KANDAHAR (AIP): A key Taliban commander Mualvi Attaullah among three suspected Taliban were killed and four more were detained during an operation conducted jointly by foreign and local troops in southern Kandahar province last night (Jan 12/13), said a statement issued here from Kandahar Governor H...

KABUL (AIP): Government claimed security forces had killed six Taliban in Kandahar and Uruzgan provinces during the past 24 hours while Taliban said they had killed 13 Afghan police in Maiwand district today (Jan. 13). A statement issued by interior ministry here Sunday said troops of the Afghan...

KABUL (AIP): Governors of highest poppy growing provinces, officials of interior ministry, counter- narcotics ministry and local governance Saturday (Jan. 12) held talks on effective eradication of poppy crops. A press release issued here said the meeting attended by interior minister, counter-n...

KABUL (AIP): Police arrested two weapons smugglers in Kabul yesterday (Jan. 11), interior ministry said Saturday. The two smugglers, Abdul Kabir and Abdul Karim was arrested during an operation in the Khawaj Baghra area 5th police zone and recovered huge quantity of ammunition, military goods inc...