SHEBARGHAN (AIP): Unknown gunmen kidnapped an Afghan engineer and his driver today (Dec. 07) in northern Jowzjan province, an official said Tuesday. A delegation from Kabul was inspecting some projects launched by National Solidarity Programme in...

KABUL (AIP): Renewing his pledge to pull-out troops from Afghanistan, British Prime Minister David Cameron has said they would start gradual withdrawal of forces next year. Addressing a joint press conference with Afghan President Hamid Karzai aft...

HERAT (AIP): One of the two Afghan engineers kidnapped by unknown was found dead last night in western Farah province, police said Monday (Dec. 06). Muhammad Munir, a police officer of Farah province, told Afghan Islamic Press that one of the two...

KABUL (AIP): Taliban seized a NATO supply vehicle and looted another yesterday (Dec. 05) in Saidabad district of Wardak province, an official said Monday. Taliban attacked NATO supply vehicles in Mangalio area and took with them one vehicle loaded...

GHAZNI (AIP): Two police were killed and two more wounded in a traffic accident today (Dec. 06) in Qalat, capital of Zabul province, an official said Monday. A Ranger vehicle travelling in by police collided head-on with a fuel supply vehicle in p...

KANDAHAR (AIP): A roadside bomb detonated near a police vehicle in the limits of Kandahar City today (Dec. 06), causing no casualties, police said Monday. Fazal Ahmad Sherzad, security chief of Kandahar police department, told AIP that a police v...

KABUL: (AIP): The First Deputy President of Afghanistan Marshal Muhammad Qasim Fahim Monday flew to Germany for treatment. Reliable sources in Kabul told Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) Marshal Fahim was facing cardiac diseases and he often went to for...

KABUL: (AIP): Two soldiers of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed in separate incidents of violence in south of Afghanistan on Monday. The NATO-led alliance in Kabul said two ISAF soldiers were killed in separat...

HERAT: (AIP): Six persons were killed and 25 more sustained injuries when a vehicle collided with an oil tanker in Herat City early Monday. The Herat police headquarters in-charge Colonel Dilawar Shah Dilawar told Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) that a...

KANDAHAR: (AIP): The Afghanistan High Council for Peace Chairman Professor Burhanuddin Rabbani has said that they had started negotiations with the Taliban. This he said while addressing a press conference in Kandahar on Monday after meeting the K...