KABUL (AIP): US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has said United States would not allow Afghanistan to be turned again into the centre of Taliban and al-Qaeda. Addressing a joint press conference with President Hamid Karzai in Kabul after visiting...

LASHKARGAH (AIP): A roadside bomb killed a district chief in Helmand province today (Dec. 14), sources said Wednesday. Security sources told Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) that a vehicle travelling in by head of Khanishin district, Masood Baloch, str...

LASHKARGAH (AIP): A district chief and his two guards were killed in a roadside bomb attack today (Dec. 14) in Khanishin district of Hemand province, an official said Wednesday. Masood Baloch, head of Khanishin district, was returning to district...

KABUL (AIP): Afghan and foreign forces killed 18 suspected Taliban and captured 55 others during separate operations in the country, interior ministry said Tuesday (Dec. 13). Six suspects were also injured during the operations conducted jointly b...

KABUL: (AIP): The United States Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta arrived in Kabul on a surprise visit on Tuesday (December 13). Reliable sources told the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) the US defence minister is expected to meet Afghan President Hami...

LASHKARGAH: (AIP): Two cops and three civilians were injured in a bomb blast in Sangin district in Helmand province on Tuesday (December 13). Explosives planted in a motorcycle went off in the Sangin district headquarters bazaar, leaving two cops...

KABUL (AIP): ISAF and Afghan forces killed more than two dozens suspects and detained 11 more during separate operations over the past 24 hours, interior ministry claimed Monday. The combined force conducted operations yesterday and last night in...

JALALABAD: (AIP): Unidentified gunmen shot dead four persons, including a former cop, here late Monday (December 12). The armed men opened indiscriminate fire on a former policeman and his friends in Zarinabad area in Jalalabad city, an area resid...

KANDAHAR: (AIP): Unidentified armed men gunned down an official of the Kandahar municipality here Sunday (December 11). Unknown gunmen shot dead the in-charge of fourth zone of the Kandahar municipality in Topkhana area of Kandahar city, a press r...

KANDAHAR: (AIP): The security forces torched 1000 kilograms of hashish in Panjwai district in Kandahar province yesterday (December 10). The hashish was seized by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and Afghan combined troops in the...