HERAT (AIP): Taliban captured four police after an attack on a checkpoint in Badghis province last night, border police said Monday (July 30). Taliban attacked the Amang Security Post between Kadas and Ghormach district in Badhis province and capt...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Police detained nine suspected Taliban in the Daman district of Kandahar yesterday (July 29), a police officer said Monday. The nine Taliban were held in the Daman district when they were shifting their injured colleagues to Pakist...

GHAZNI (AIP): Unidentified gunmen shot dead three civilians in the Shahjoyee district of Zabul province last night, an official said Monday (July 30). The gunmen dressed in police uniform entered some house in the Khaki village of Shahjoy district...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Afghan Minister for Rural Development, Ihsanullah Zia, Monday (July 30) signed 72 uplift projects with local companies in Kandahar. Addressing a ceremony held in this connection, the minister said that of 72 uplift projects 63 woul...

KABUL (AIP): One ISAF soldier was killed and three were wounded in southern Afghanistan during a security operation against a Taliban group, an ISAF statement said Monday (July). "ISAF mourns the loss of this brave soldier," said Lt. Col. Claudia F...

KABUL (AIP): At least 28 suspected armed militants were killed during ongoing operations in southern Afghanistan, said a press release issued by Afghan interior ministry on July 28, 2007. Four Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers were also killed dur...

KABUL (AIP): Two ISAF and one Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers were killed today (July 27) during fighting in eastern Afghanistan, an ISAF statement said late Friday night. The statement said that 13 ISAF, one ANA soldier and one civilian worki...

KHOST (AIP): Police detained nine suspected Taliban in Khost province yesterday (July 27), a security officer said Saturday. Security chief of Khost police department Wazir Badshah told Afghan Islamic Press that the suspects were held in the Ali S...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Talks between Taliban and Afghan government yield no results today (July 28) but will continue tomorrow, an official said Saturday. "We did not reach on any conclusion in today's talks but we are still in contact with Taliban," sai...

JALALABAD (AIP): Afghan Border Police (ABP) detained a smuggler at Torkham border, transporting Afghan National Amy uniforms and equipment to Pakistan yesterday (July 25), a coalition statement said Thursday. He tried to cross into Pakistan at the...