GHAZNI (AIP): Four people were killed when a landmine they were planting went off in Andar district of Ghazni province last night, interior ministry said Wednesday. The interior ministry said in a statement that the suspected people were emplacing mine on Ghazni-Andar highway. It said the dead...

KHOST (AIP): Money was reportedly distributed among participants of the public meeting Wednesday in connection with the election campaign of Afghan President Hamid Karizi in Khost province. The public meeting was held at Jirga hall of Khost City. The participants were provided with 500 afghan...

LASHKAR GAH (AIP): Work on a road was inaugurated in Tor Tank locality of Lashkar Gah, capital of southern Helmand province. Mayor of Lashkar Gah City Haji Muhammad Daud told Afghan Islamic Press that the road would be two km long and six meters wide, adding that it would be competed within 10 da...

JALALABAD (AIP): Seven dead bodies and 15 wounded were recovered who drowned after two boats capsized this morning (July 01) in Lalpura section of the Kabul River, an official said Wednesday. Engineer Mirza Muhammad Nasrat, chief of Lalpura district told Afghan Islamic Press a little while earlie...

JALALABAD (AIP): Seven police including three women police were killed today (June 30) in a suspected suicide attack at Afghan side of Torkham border, eyewitnesses said Tuesday. The witnesses said that the attack was carried out at the place where body search of women, crossing into Afghanistan, is...

JALALABAD (AIP): Afghan Telecommunication Minister Ameeri Sangin inaugurated a new digital exchange of 5000 lines today (June 30) at Jalalabad City, capital of eastern Nangarhar province. The exchange has been completed in a period of two years at a cost of 2.6 million USD. Speaking on the oc...

KABUL (AIP): Hezb-e-Islami Hekmatyar on Tuesday (June 30) claimed to have killed four foreign soldiers and injured five more in Wardak province. Waliullah, spokesman of Hezb-e-Islami Hekmatyar told Afghan Islamic Press that their fighters destroyed a vehicle of foreign forces today in Medan-e-Sha...

KABUL (AIP): Afghan guards of US special forces opened fire on police officers in southern Kandahar province today, killing five police including provincial police chief and crimes branch police in-charge, an official said Monday.

KABUL (AIP): A soldier of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was killed this morning (June 29) in a mine blast in eastern Afghanistan, ISAF said Monday. ISAF has not released the exact location of the incident and identity of the deceased soldier. The latest ISAF fatality brought...

KABUL (AIP): Security personnel arrested two Taliban and seven foreign nationals in various area of Nimroz province, official sources said Sunday. Governor of Nimroz Ghulam Dastagir Azad told Afghan Islamic Press that security personnel of Pul-e-Ibrashem post, bordering Iran, arrested two Taliba...