PESHAWAR (AIP): Transporters supplying goods to Afghanistan observed strike here on Friday (April. 27) against the imposition of new taxes by Afghan government and threatened to stop supply to foreign forces if the Afghan government failed to withdra...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Six Taliban and four police were killed during a clash in Uruzgan province last night, an official said Friday (April. 27). Taliban attacked a security post in the Darkhshan Nawa area of Chora district, killing four police, an offi...

KABUL (AIP): Coalition forces killed five suspected Taliban detained as many in an early-morning raid on a compound in the Qalat district of Zabul province today (April 27), a coalition statement said Friday. Credible information led the Coalitio...

KHOST (AIP): A civilian was killed as rockets fired from the Pakistan side of the border hit Paktika province yesterday (April. 25), governor said Thursday. Governor of Paktika Province Dr. Muhammad Akram Khpalwak told Afghan Islamic Press that 20...

JALALABAD (AIP): A roadside bomb went off in Mehtar Lam, capital of Laghman province today (April. 26), killing one passer-by and wounding another, an official said Thursday. The bomb had been planted under a small bridge in front of anti- terrori...

KHOST (AIP): Gunmen killed two people in Paktika province yesterday afternoon, governor said Thursday. Both the people were killed in Patana area near Sharana, capital of Paktika province. A man who introduced himself as spokesman of Taliban to...

KABUL (AIP): Unknown assailants attacked security post on Mazar Sharif-Ghebarghan highway last night in Balkh province, causing no damage, an official said Thursday (April. 26). "Yes, a check post of highway police was attacked with small arms fir...

KABUL (AIP): Some 200 Afghan Eradication Forces (AEF) began eradicating poppy crop today (April. 26) in Terin Kot District of Uruzgan province. A statement jointly issued by the interior and counter narcotics ministries Thursday said the poppy er...

KABUL (AIP): Infant mortality rates in Afghanistan declined from an estimated 165 per 1,000 live births in 2001 to about 135 per 1,000 in 2006, a survey said. The survey was conducted by Johns Hopkins University (JHU). A health facility assessm...

KABUL (AIP): Five foreign fighter were killed in air strike near Pakistan border after a group of over 10 fighters attacked Afghan Border Patrol officers manning checkpoints seven kilometres east of Chamkani in the Dand Patan District of Paktia yeste...