KHOST (AIP): Two Taliban and one police were killed during a firefight in Paktika province today, police said Friday (Dec. 08). Four government opponents were also captured and two policemen wounded during the firefight ignited by opponents' att...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Passengers have been facing severe problems due to the blockade of Ghanzi-Kabul highway after heavy snowfall, the Afghanistan national television reported Saturday (Dec. 08). The heavy snowfall during the last three days in the Kot...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban on Thursday (Dec. 07) accepted responsibility of the killing of district chief of Gulran. Taliban fighters attacked district chief Gulran between Herat City and Gulran district yesterday (Dec. 06), killing the district chie...

KHOST (AIP): A district investigation officer was shot dead by unidentified gunmen inside his house last night, official sources said Thursday (Dec. 07). The house of Maj. Jan Muhammad, head of the investigation department of Zazi Maidan district...

KABUL (AIP): The US Provincial Reconstruction Team at Mehtar Lam responded to three separate requests for humanitarian assistance Tuesday in Laghman Province in eastern Afghanistan, says a press release issued Thursday (Dec. 07). The statement sai...

KANDAHAR (AIP): A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives laden vehicle near a NATO convoy in Kandahar today, killing one passer-by and wounding four others, police said Thursday (Dec. 07). The incident was happened in Madad Square of Kandahar...

KABUL (AIP): Pakistan's Foreign Minister Khurshid Muhammad Kasuri arrived here on Thursday (Dec. 07) and held talks with Afghan President Karzai and Foreign Minister Rangeen Dadfar Spanta on border security, infiltration by Taliban militants and the...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Regional chief of United States Protection Investigation (USPI), a US security agency, and six others were killed when a suicide bomber blow up himself in front of USPI office here this morning, officials, eyewitnesses said Wednesday...

KABUL (AIP): Coalition and Afghan forces arrested three suspected terrorists during an operation early this morning near the village of Qasemaul Kalay, in Khost Province, says a press release issued by coalition forces Wednesday (Dec. 06). The sta...

JALALABAD (AIP): The head of Ningarhar agriculture department was rounded up on charges of corruption today, an official said Wednesday (Dec. 06). Sayed Aziz Zahir, provincial director of agriculture department was sent behind the bars on charges...