KANDAHAR (AIP): Lt. Gen. Asmatullah Dawlatzai was appointed as General Commander Police of south-east provinces. A meeting was held in the Training Center of Kandahar Police here on Saturday. Besides others Defense Minister Gen. Abdur Raheem Wardak, Interior Minister Eng. Zarar Ahmad Maqbel, Gover...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Ambassador of the United States in Afghanistan Mr. Ronald E. Neumann has said Saturday that US will extend every possible support to Afghan National Army (ANA) and Afghan Police to counter terrorism in Afghanistan. He was talking to journalists after attending a high level meeting h...

KANDAHAR (AIP): A jihad-era landmine killed two workers and injured four others when they were installing booster of a mobile phone company in Helmand province yesterday, officials said Saturday. Eight labourers were busy in installing a booster for Roshan Cell Phone Company when a jihad-era landmi...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban kidnapped four policemen after an attack on a security post in Farah province. Police chief of Bakwa district Muhammad Ibrahim told Afghan Islamic Press that Taliban kidnapped four policemen including the a police commander from a security post between Bakwa district and Far...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban on Saturday said that three commanders of Amir Dadu, Member of Parliament, surrendered to them. Taliban spokesman Qari Muhammad Yousaf phoned the office of Afghan Islamic Press in Peshawar and said that three commanders of former intelligence chief of Helmand and member of p...

KANDAHAR (AIP): A suicide car bomber attacked Canadian troops in Kandahar city on Sunday morning in which the Canadian troops did not suffer casualties, however, atleast ten other people were feared killed and wounded in the attack, eyewitnesses said. The incident was happened on Eid Gah road in Ka...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Four people including the suicide bomber were killed and 12 wounded, three of them in critical condition, in Kandahar suicide explosion on Sunday, chief of Kandahar health department said. Chief of Kandahar health department, Dr. Abdul Qayum told Afghan Islamic Press that three civi...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban on Sunday claimed to have fired three rockets at an under construction airport in Khost province last night. Taliban fired three rockets at a newly under construction airport in west of Khost city last night, spokesman of Taliban fighters, Dr. Muhammad Hanif told Afghan Isla...

HERAT (AIP): A suicide bomber attacked a convoy of Afghan National Army (ANA) and coalition forces in Farah city this morning, officials said on Thursday. "A suicide bomber detonated his explosive laden car near a joint convey of coalition forces and Afghan National Army this morning about 8:00 am...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Heavy fighting was continuing between Taliban fighters and government forces having the support of coalition troops in Kandahar province on Wednesday noon, residents of the area said.A resident of Panjwai district of Kandahar province told Afghan Islamic Press by phone that fierce fi...