KABUL: (AIP): Five armed opponents were killed, one injured and 23 more held alive while huge quantity of explosives and drugs were seized in separate operations over the past 24 hours in the country, the interior ministry said Monday (December 19)....

KANDAHAR: (AIP): The Taliban allegedly gunned down the Kandahar former borders and tribal affairs chairman Abdul Baqi Rughbat here yesterday (December 17). Unidentified armed men shot dead Abdul Baqi Rughbat in Shikarpur area in Kandahar city yest...

KHOST: (AIP): As many as 16 persons, including a cop, were injured in an explosion in Khost City early Sunday (December 18), a hospital official Abdul Majeed Mangal told the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP). Complete story to follow soon. Posted at 0...

HERAT: (AIP): Three police personnel were killed and as many injured when the vehicle they were travelling in struck an improvised explosive device in Dilaraam district in Nimroz province yesterday (December 17). A police vehicle struck an IED in...

KHOST: (AIP): As many as 20 Afghan civilians were injured when a hand-grenade was hurled at a police van in Khost City early Sunday (December 18). The grenade was hurled at the police vehicle from a nearby market in the area, the Khost police head...

MAIDAN SHAHAR: (AIP): A 15-kilometre-long road was opened for traffic in Narkh district in Wardag province on Sunday (December 18). The road constructed by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) by spending over $5 million connected th...

KABUL: (AIP): An international cricket stadium was inaugurated in capital Kabul on Sunday (December 18). The cricket stadium was inaugurated in a ceremony where among others the Afghanistan Cricket Board Chairman Dr Hazar Omer Zakhelwal, cabinet m...

John Allen apologises over raid on official's house KABUL: (AIP): The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) Commander General John R. Allen has extended apologies to the Afghan President Hamid Karzai for conducting raid on house of a securi...

MAIDAN SHAHAR: (AIP): A metrological centre was opened in Wardag province on Saturday (December 17). The Wardag Governor Muhammad Halim Fidai inaugurated the metrological centre constructed by the water and power ministry by spending $145, a press...

KABUL: (AIP): The Italian Minister for Economic Development Paolo Romani here Saturday (December 17) handed over to President Hamid Karzai the map for upgradation of the Herat International Airport. The Italian Minister for Economic Development Pa...