GHAZNI City (AIP): Unidentified gunmen shot dead two women and wounded a child inside their house in Ghazni City, capital of Ghazni province, last night, police said Thursday. The gunmen broke into a house in Hakeem Sanai area of the provincial c...

KHOST (AIP): A district governor who was injured in a roadside bomb attack yesterday (Nov. 08) in Paktika province died at a hospital last night, police said Wednesday. Muhammad Akbar, governor of Sarhoza district, succumbed to wounds at a medica...

KABUL (AIP): President Hamid Karzai left Kabul for Maldives Wednesday (Nov. 09) to attend 17th Saarc Summit scheduled to be held on Nov. 10. The president accompanied by National Security Advisor, Dr. Rangin Dadfar Spanta and Foreign Minister Zalm...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Three people were killed in a mine explosion yesterday (Nov. 08) in Tarinkot, capital of Uruzgan province, police said Wednesday. A roadside bomb exploded on a motorcar in Sarkhom Aolia area of the provincial capital at about 7:00...

HERAT: (AIP): Four police and eight civilians were killed while a cop and an Afghan citizen sustained injuries when an improvised explosive device exploded on a police vehicle in Badghes province yesterday (November 07). The Badghes provincial shu...

HERAT: (AIP): Two captive employees of Etisalat were released after two-month captivity on Tuesday (November 08). The Adraskan District Chief Ahmad Farhad Raufyan told the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) the Etisalat employees were set free through the...

KABUL: (AIP): Snowfall started in few provinces of Afghanistan on Tuesday (November 08). Reports say the first snowfall of the this winter season started in Badakhshsn, Takhar, Kunduz, Baghlan, Jawzjan, Samangan, Balkh, Sar-i-Pul and Faryab provin...

KANDAHAR: (AIP): Five alleged Pakistanis were among six armed opponents killed by the Afghan police in Zharay district in Kandahar province last night. A Kandahar media centre press release, available with the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP), Monday (N...

KABUL: (AIP): The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and Taliban claimed causing casualties to each other in a gunfight in Argu district in Badakhshan province last night. The Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told the Afghan Islami...

LASHKARGAH: (AIP): A district police chief was among three cops killed in an improvised explosive device blast in Garamser district in Helmand province last night. The Helmand Police Chief Brigadier General Muhammad Hakim Angar told the Afghan Isl...