KHOST (AIP): Police arrested five suspected Taliban in Khost and recovered mortar rounds and other ammunition from their possession yesterday (April. 23), police said Tuesday. The five suspected Taliban were detained in the Zazi Maidan district of Khost province, said Colonel Wazir Badshah, publi...

HERAT (AIP): Afghan and foreign forces killed two Taliban and detained eight suspected people during joint operations in the western Farah province last night, border forces said Tuesday (April. 24). The operations were launched in Bakwa district in which a policeman was wounded and two Taliban w...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Hundreds of Afghan refugees, forced from their homes by Iranian police, have arrived in the bordering Nimroz province during the last two days, an official said Tuesday (April. 24). The refugees forced repatriated from the Zabul area of Iran are staying now in the Abrisham Pull ar...

KABUL (AIP): Police detained a know Taliban commander and seized two vehicles, one of them laden with explosives in Uruzgan province today (April. 24), interior ministry said Tuesday. A press release issued by interior ministry said the explosive laden vehicle was later destroyed by police. It...

KABUL (AIP): Taliban claimed they had killed a pro-government commander with two bodyguards and picked up his two more guards in the Qarabagh district of Ghazni province today (April. 24). However, police said there were no casualties in the clash. A clash happened between Taliban and police in t...

KANDAHAR (AIP): A roadside bomb killed two policemen and wounded five others in Zabul today (April. 23) while Taliban beheaded an intelligence office in Ghazni province, officials said Monday. The intelligence officer, Abdul Shakoor was invited by his friends to a house in the Nooghee area Sunday...

JALALABAD (AIP): Six intelligence personnel including an officer were killed and four others injured in a roadside bomb explosion in Laghman province today (April. 23), officials said Monday. The intelligence personnel of Noristan were coming from Laghman when a landmine hit their vehicle in Alin...

KABUL (AIP): Taliban fired rockets at a highway check post in the northern Kunduz province last night causing no damages, interior ministry said Monday (April. 23). Press office of the interior ministry told Afghan Islamic Press that attackers fled toward Chardari district soon after firing rocke...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Afghan and Coalition forces have besieged around 300 Taliban in the Charchino district of Uruzgan province, police said Monday (April. 24). However, Taliban termed the police claim as "false propaganda". Taliban commander Mulla Amin and Mulla Bismillah are among these Taliban whil...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Pakistan has decided to close four Afghan refugee camps before June 15, 2007 in NWFP and Balochistan. The meeting was held with Interior Minister Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao in the chair and attended by provincial home secretaries and police chiefs of the four provinces. The meet...