KANDAHAR (AIP): Two policemen were injured when their vehicle struck a mine in Sangin district of Helmand province on Sunday afternoon, said provincial police chief of Helmand, Mohammad Hussain Andiwal. Earlier, the Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Y...

KANDAHAR (AIP): No meeting took place between the Taliban leaders and South Korean officials on the issue of 21 hostages while the two sick female hostages were still in the custody of Taliban, said a spokesman for the Taliban Qari Mohammad Yousaf Ah...

HERAT (AIP): The residents of Kehsan district of western Herat province Sunday staged a protest demonstration against the killings of four children by Iranian border security forces and called for handing them over the bodies of the slain children....

KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban Saturday (Aug. 10) said talks were smoothly continuing with South Korean delegation in Ghazni province and they hoped that it would yield positive results. "Talks between Taliban and South Korean team on the fate of hostage...

Coalition claim killing 12 suspected Taliban in south KABUL (AIP): Coalition air strike killed an estimated dozen of Taliban after an attack on combined patrol of Afghan and coalition forces in the southern Kandahar province yesterday (Aug. 10), a s...

KABUL (AIP): The duration of ongoing Afghanistan-Pakistan peace jirga has been extended for a day more and it is said that this decision has been taken in the wake of Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf willingness to attend the concluding s...

KANDAHAR (AIP): NATO forces have arrested two Taliban militants including a commander in southern Kandahar province, NATO media office told AIP on Saturday. The two were arrested during an operation in eastern parts of Kandahar province on credible...

KABUL (AIP): President of the Pak-Afghan Joint Peace Jirga and Interior Minister of Pakistan, Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao officially announced here on Saturday that President General Pervez Musharraf will arrive in Kabul tomorrow (Aug. 12). Aftab Ahm...

GHAZNI (AIP): Taliban Saturday (Aug. 11) said they set free two South Korean female hostages on humanitarian basis on Saturday.  A purported Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousaf told AIP that the two female hostages were freed...

KABUL (AIP): A Coalition air strike killed 10 Taliban near the Washir town of Helmand province today (Aug. 09), a coalition statement said Friday. Afghan and coalition forces conducting a combat patrol in the vicinity of Payowak, when they were ambu...