KABUL (AIP): Two NATO-led (International Security Assistance Force) soldiers were killed and one injured during two separate landmine explosions in eastern Afghanistan today (April. 12), an ISAF statement said Thursday. The statement said the three soldiers were medically evacuated to a treatment...

KABUL (AIP): Afghan National Army and Coalition forces killed 40 Taliban 50 kilometers northeast of Qalat, Zabul Province early today (April 12), a coalition statement said Thursday. The statement said the combined force identified a large group of Taliban fighters on a ridgeline near a cave sit...

KABUL (AIP): Afghan and Coalition Forces captured two Taliban during an early today (April. 11) raid in the Gomal district of the Paktika province, US-led coalition said Wednesday. A coalition statement said the target was a member of "a known terrorist network", who was responsible for attacks ag...

MAZAR SHARIF (AIP): A vehicle of Afghan National Army (ANA) damaged in a bomb explosion in Mazar Sharif, capital of northern Balkh province today (April. 11), sources said Wednesday. The bomb had been planted into the ANA vehicle parked in the northern bazaar of the shrine of Hazrat Ali which det...

KABUL (AIP): Coalition forces killed an estimated 13 Taliban during an air strike on a compound in the Sangin district of Helmand province yesterday, Coalition said Wednesday. Taliban launched indirect mortar and rocket propelled grenade fire at a combined Afghan National Army and Coalition forc...

HERAT (AIP): Unidentified gunmen shot dead a local Taliban commander in the Sheendand district of western Herat province yesterday (April. 10), sources said Wednesday. Mulla Muhammad Usman was an influential Taliban commander in the area and was also involved in a number of attacks on government...

KABUL (AIP): A coalition soldiers received minor injured as a coalition base was attacked with rockets in Khost province last night, coalition said Wednesday (April. 11). "A Coalition Forces base in Khost was attacked with indirect fire last night around 5:40 p.m. Three munitions, believed to be...

KANDAHAR (AIP): At least ten passers-by were wounded as a suicide bomber attacked a convoy of NATO-led ISAF troops in the volatile Kandahar province today (April. 11), ISAF and doctor said Wednesday. At 1:30 p.m. (local time) a suicide bomber attacked the NATO forces convoy in the Punjab area of...

KABUL (AIP): Afghan journalist Ajmal Naqshbandi, who was abducted with Italian journalist by Taliban and executed on April. 08, was laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard today (April 12) in Kabul. A large number of grief-stricken people including his relatives, friends, journalists and others w...

HERAT (AIP): Afghan police repelled Taliban attack on a highway checkpoint in Farah province last night, a police official said Tuesday. A group of Taliban riding 12 vehicles attacked the Kandahar-Herat highway police security post in Aab Khurma area between Bala Balook and Farah Rod districts of...