KABUL: (AIP): The ISAF and Afghan authorities Sunday (January 30) claimed detaining several Taliban in various parts of the country while the Taliban claimed conducting attacks on Afghan and foreign forces. An ISAF press release said the combined...

KUNDUZ: (AIP): Brother of a police officer was gunned down in Markazi Baghlan district of Baghlan province on Sunday (January 30). A security official of Baghlan province, wishing not to be named, told Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) armed persons gunn...

KABUL: (AIP): The Afghan President Hamid Karzai met with the leader of the British Labour Party ED Milliband at the presidential palace here Sunday (January 30). A presidential press office statement said the leaders discussed transition of securi...

HERAT: (AIP): The Taliban claimed killing five Afghan police soldiers in a blast in Qilla-i-Naw district of Badghes province on Sunday (January 30). The Taliban spokesman Qari Muhammad Yousaf Ahmadi told Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) their fighters b...

KUNDUZ (AIP): Afghan security officials claimed Friday (Jan 28) that three districts were cleared from Taliban during the past several days in northern Afghanistan. General Muhammad Daud Daud, police commander for northern zone, told a press confe...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Deputy Governor of southern Kandahar province was killed today Jan 28) in a roadside bomb attack in the limits of Kandahar City, security sources said Saturday.

KANDAHAR (AIP): Deputy Governor of southern Kandahar province was killed in a suspected suicide attack today (Jan 29) in the limits of Kandahar City, security sources said Saturday. Abdul Latif Ashna, deputy governor of Kandahar, was on way to his...

HERAT (AIP): A police kidnapped by Taliban on Jan 27 was found dead in Shindand district of western Herat province, police said Saturday (Jan. 29). Lal Muhammad Omarzai, governor of Shindand, told Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) that the policeman se...

HERAT (AIP): Hundreds of Afghans took to the street in western Herat City today (Jan 29) to lodge their protest against the execution of Afghans in Iran. While chanting slogans against Iranian President Ahmadinejad and Iranian spiritual leader, S...

KABUL: (AIP): Close ally of the President Hamid Karzai and former warlord, Professor Abdur Rab Rasool Sayyaf, was elected speaker of Afghan parliament Saturday (Jan 29) in the run-off round with 119 votes in the 249-member parliament. His close co...