KHOST (AIP): Three people were killed and one wounded over petty dispute in the Sabrio district of Khost province yesterday, an official said Thursday (Feb. 15). In-charge of Sabrio district, Gul Qaseem Jehadyar told Afghan Islamic Press that caus...

JALALABAD (AIP): Police arrested four people allegedly planning to loot an oil filling station in Jalalabad last night, police said Thursday (Feb. 15). The thieves were arrested with arms on a tip off near Farm Adda goodowns, said Ghafoor Khan, sp...

KABUL (AIP): A senior Taliban commander, Mulla Manan, was killed in a precision air strike by ISAF in Musa Qala district yesterday, an ISAF statement said Thursday (Feb. 15). Manan was a Taliban extremist leader who played an instrumental part in th...

ISLAMABAD (AIP): The voluntary repatriation of Afghans in Pakistan will resume in spring 2007 with new return arrangements and enhanced assistance linked to the recently-concluded registration exercise, a UNHCR statement said Thursday (Feb. 15). Th...

KHOST (AIP): A brother and his sister who were kidnapped from Kabul were found in Paktia province yesterday, police said Thursday (Feb. 15).  Both the eight-year-old girl and 22 year-oil boy were intoxicated and their hands and legs had been ti...

KABUL (AIP): Afghan security forces arrested three suspected people during operations conducted in the Zarmat district of Paktia province, police said Thursday. The suspected people were rounded up in separate operations conducted in different sus...

KABUL (AIP): Taliban on Thursday (Feb. 15) claimed their fighters killed two foreign troops during a clash in the eastern Kunar province today. However, NATO-led ISAF rejected the claims as false. A spokesman of Taliban, Zabihullah Mujahid, phoned...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Two people including a police commander were killed and three other policemen wounded in a roadside bomb blast in Helmand province yesterday, relative of deceased commander said Wednesday (Feb. 14). The vehicle of police commander,...

KHOST (AIP): The Khost Governor Jamal Arsala has visited the affected nomad families in different area of the province and distributed assistance among them. The governor has made visits to Baak and Sabreo districts of the province and meets a nu...

KHOST (AIP): Unknown gunmen set afire shops in the Baak district headquarters last night, district chief said Wednesday (Feb. 14). In-charged of Baak District of Khost province, Hussain Jan Sherazi told Afghan Islamic Press that two medical stores...