KABUL: (AIP): US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, Tuesday (Dec 14) passed away due to cardiac problem in Washington, international media reported. Holbrooke had suffered cardiac problem in Ministry of Interior last Fri...

KABUL (AIP): Three soldiers of the Afghan National Army (ANA) were killed and five more sustained injuries in separate incidents of violence during the past 24 hours in Afghanistan, the defence ministry said Tuesday. A press release issued by the...

KHOST: (AIP): Unidentified armed men shot injured two workers, including a Pakistani engineer, of a roads construction company in Waza Zadran district of Paktia province last night, an official said Tuesday. The Waza Zadran District Chief Abdul Wa...

KANDAHAR: (AIP): The security forces foiled a destruction bid by seizing huge quantity of explosives in Shah Wali Kot district of Kandahar province, a press release said Tuesday. A press release issued by the Kandahar press office today (December...

HERAT: (AIP): Four Taliban were killed and three more sustained injuries in the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) airstrike in Pasawand district of Ghor province, officials said Tuesday. The Ghor Police Chief Abdul Baqi Nuristani told...

KUNDUZ: (AIP): The Germany Defence Minister Karl-Theodor Freiherr zu Guttenberg Monday (December 13) met soldiers of his country in northern Kunduz province during his sudden visit to Afghanistan. Talking to the reporters in the capital of Kunduz,...

MAZAR-I-SHARIF: (AIP): The operations launched by the combined forces against the Taliban in northern Balkh and Baghlan provinces of Afghanistan have been in progress, officials said Monday (December 13). Regarding the operations launched by the p...

KANDAHAR: (AIP): The new governor for the Uruzgan province, Muhammad Umar Sherzad, Monday started his official works. Muhammad Umar Sherzad, who also took part in the jihad against Russians, was member of the senate as representative of the Kanda...

JALALABAD: (AIP): The Taliban Monday claimed to have torched two logistic containers of the foreign forces in Aleengar district of Laghman province. The Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) their fighters conducted...

KHOST: (AIP): A person was killed in an explosion at a medicine market in Khost province today (December 13), an official said Monday. The Khost health department chairman Dr Amar Badshah Rehmatzai Mangal told Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) an explosi...