KABUL (AIP): A new school was opened in the Deh Bala district of eastern Nangarhar province Jan. 15, an ISAF statement said Friday (Jan. 19). In this connection a ceremony was held which was attended by the Jalalabad Provincial Reconstruction Team...

PESHAWAR (AIP): More than 150 shops were gutted when fire engulfed a market in the famous Karkhano Markets today (Jan. 19), causing huge damage to property and valuables worth millions of rupees, eyewitnesses said Friday. The fire was broke out in...

JALALABAD (AIP): A district chief and another man were wounded in a roadside bomb blast in the eastern Ningarhar province today (Jan. 18), police said Thursday. The in-charge of Kama district was on way to office when the vehicle he was traveling...

KHOST (AIP): A suicide bomber killed one Afghan soldier and wounded three others in Paktika province today (Jan. 18), governor said Thursday. The bomber attacked soldiers of the Afghan National Army by detonating explosives strapped to his body i...

KHOST (AIP): Police arrested several people including five high-ranking officials of Khost province on the directives of Attorney General Abdul Jabar Sabit on charges of corruption, sources said Thursday (Jan. 18). An official who wished not to be...

HERAT (AIP): Afghan force and PRT discovered a large weapons cache during joint operations in Farah province yesterday, police said Thursday (Jan. 18). The cache containing heavy weapons and explosive materials was unearthed between Jeeja and Khos...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Two Taliban were killed in a landmine explosion in Kandahar yesterday, an official said Thursday. Both the Taliban fighters were placing a landmine at a roadside near the shrine of Ghaibi Baba in Chora district when it detonated, k...

KHOST (AIP): Two health clinics were opened in Khost and Uruzgan provinces today (Jan. 18). The 10-bed health clinic has been constructed with financial support of foreign forces in Sara Bagh area of Khost province and the Afghan and foreign docto...

KHOST (AIP): The families of suicide bombing victims were compensated in Paktika province, governor said Thursday (Jan. 18). Cash assistance was extended to each person killed in the suicide attack in Urgoon district a few moths back, said Dr. Muh...

KANDAHAR (AIP): The Afghan National Army (ANA) and NATO forces killed a key Taliban commander and captured 20 other fighters in Kandahar yesterday, governor said Thursday. The joint operations were conducted in the Maiwand district in which a Talib...