KANDAHAR (AIP): An operation would soon be conducted amid reports of rising Taliban activities in Sangin and other districts of the sourthern Kanandahar province, governor said Sunday (Feb. 11). About 700 foreign fighters including Chechens, Arabs...

KABUL (AIP): A US service member died of a gunshot wound today (Feb. 11) in Balkh province, Afghanistan, say a press release issued by coalition forces Sunday. The press release did not disclose the nature of the incident in which the US soldier...

MAZAR-E-SHARIF (AIP): Four people were killed and seven others wounded in a road accident in Mazar-e-Sharif last night, officials said Sunday (Feb. 11). The road accident was happene near Qamarband on Mazar-e-Sharif highway when a passenger bus co...

KABUL (AIP): The Kabul-Jalalabad highway was closed for all kind of traffic after land sliding, Afghanistan national Television reported today (Feb. 11). The television reported that work on clearing the debris from road was continuing. Passeng...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Four policemen were killed and three others wounded in Taliban attack Feb. 08 in Kandahar province, police said Saturday (Feb.10). In the incident happened in the Moshan area of Panjwaee district when Taliban ambushed a police part...

KANDAHAR (AIP): A suicide bomber killed in failed attack on the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) personnel in Kandahar today (Feb. 10), an ISAF official said Saturday. The bomber attacked a vehicle of PRT to the southwest of Kandahar City, cau...

PESHAWAR (AIP): A bomb exploded in the car park of Red Cross in Peshawar today (Feb. 10), causing no casualties, police said Saturday. Four vehicles were damaged in the explosion, Moharrar of University Town Police Station told Afghan Islamic Pres...

KABUL (AIP): President Hamid Karzai welcomed the agreement reached between the leaders of Hamas and Fatah in the holy city of Mecca to form a national unity government in Palestine. A press release issued here on Saturday (Feb. 10) the President p...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Afghan and NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) killed 11 Taliban in Helmand province yesterday (Feb. 09), police said Saturday. The operation was conducted in the Kajaki district of the southern province of Helm...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban clashed with troops of NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in the volatile Helmand province yesterday and today, an ISAF spokesman said Friday (Feb. 09). Heavy clashes were reported between Taliban a...