KABUL (AIP): President Hamid Karzai left for Turkmenistan before noon today (Dec. 11) to sign the multi-billion dollar Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project. Turkmenistan would export around 33 billion cubic meters of...

KANDAHAR (AIP): A heavy explosion was heard in Kandahar City today (Dec. 11) but there were no details of the damage, sources said Saturday. A security official who wished not to be named told Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) the explosion happened in t...

KANDAHAR (AIP): A car bomb blast wounded six police and two civilians today (Dec. 11) in Kadahahar City, police and doctors said Saturday. A doctor at emergency section of Mirwais Hospital in Kandahar city told Afghan Islamic Press that six polic...

KUNDUZ (AIP): Five people were killed and four others wounded as a motorcar overturned today (Dec. 11) near Pul-e-Khumri, capital of northern Baghlan province, police said Saturday. The incident happened in Shashma area near provincial capital whe...

KABUL (AIP): A mine blast left a soldier of Afghan National Army (ANA) dead yesterday (Dec. 10) in Chahar Bolak district of Balkh province, defence ministry said Saturday. The defence ministry said in a brief statement that a mine went off in Taim...

KANDAHAR (AIP): At least six police and two civilians were injured in an explosion in Kadahahar City Saturday, officials said. A doctor at the emergency section of the Mirwais Hospital in Kandahar City told Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) that six poli...

GHAZNI: (AIP): Unidentified armed men shot dead two persons in Ghazni province over old enmity in Ghazni province, officials said Saturday. The Ghazni Police Chief Zrawar Khan Zahid told Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) that unknown gunmen killed two Af...

KANDAHAR: (AIP): Three children were injured in separate incidents of violence in Kandahar and Nimroz province today (December 11) and yesterday (Friday). The Nimroz Police Chief Abdul Jabbar Purdali told Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) a landmine expl...

KABUL: (AIP): The Taliban claimed to have killed 14 policemen and captured nine more in Baghlan and Balkh provinces. The Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) their fighters clashed with the border police in Dehna Gh...

KUNDUZ: (AIP): A guard of the Takhar provincial assembly chairman was injured in an explosion on Saturday. The Takhar provincial assembly chairman Shah Mehmood Talqani told Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) that a landmine exploded on his vehicle in Sara...