KHOST (AIP): A heavy explosion happened near civil hospital in Khost City today (Feb. 20) but details of the damage of life and property were not available, eyewitnesses said Tuesday. It seems that this was a suicide attack, an eyewitness told Afg...

KABUL (AIP): Taliban ambushed a patrol of Afghan National Army in the Kamdesh district of Noristan province yesterday (Feb. 19), killing on and wounded two Afghan soldiers, Defence Ministry said Tuesday. The incident was happened in the Suraj area...

KABUL (AIP): A driver was killed and a passenger was wounded when ISAF force opened firing on a vehicle after it failed to stop at a checkpoint in Zabul province yesterday (Feb. 19). A press release issued by NATO-led International Security Assist...

KABUL (AIP): A convoy of coalition forces came under fire in the Tagab district of Kapisa province while a man suspected of pointing weapon at a medical evacuation helicopter near Bagram Airfield was arrested yesterday (Feb. 19), a coalition statemen...

KABUL (AIP): Afghan National Army and Coalition forces discovered a large munitions cache 20 kilometers south of Shindad, in Herat Province, Feb. 19 while conducting a combat patrol in the area, an ISAF statement said Tuesday. The combined Afgha...

KABUL (AIP): Like Wolesi Jirga, the Masharano Jirga (Upper house of Afghan Parliament) on Tuesday (Feb. 20) also passed the controversial bill, granting immunity to warlords involved in war crimes, with majority of votes. The bill was supported by...

PESHAWAR (AIP): The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has imposed ban on three television channels of Afghanistan, for spreading negative propaganda against Pakistan, a local Pashto language newspaper reported Tuesday (Feb. 20)....

JALALABAD (AIP): A vehicle of the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) was damaged in a remote control explosion today (Feb. 19) in the eastern Ningarhar province but having no casualties, official said on Sunday. "The explosive was c...

KANDAHAR (AIP): An Afghan soldier and a civilian were killed while a vehicle of NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was damaged in rocket attack in the troubled Kandahar province last night, NATO said Monday (Feb. 19)....

HERAT (AIP): Taliban captured the Bakwa district of western Farah province today (Feb. 19) but was later cleared by Afghan forces, governor said Monday.  Security officials confirmed to Afghan Islamic Press that Taliban overrun the headquarters...