KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban on Tuesday (June 05) claimed they executed one of the five health workers who were captured a few months back in Kandahar province. "We executed Abdul Khalil, one of the four kidnapped doctors, at 12:00 noon today (June 05)...

KANDAHAR (AIP): The government is stand by its promise of handing over the body of Mulla Dadullah to Taliban but no one has so far contacted it, interior ministry spokesman Tuesday (June 05). "The government is ready to return the body of Dadullah...

KABUL (AIP): The Pakistan's Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said Tuesday (June 05) Pakistan wants peace and stability in Afghanistan and keen for development of Afghanistan by strengthening economic and trade relations between the two neighbouring co...

KABUL (AIP): A soldier of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was killed during an engagement with Taliban in eastern Afghanistan today (June 05), an ISAF statement said late Tuesday. The statement did not disclose the location where th...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Four suspected Taliban were detained with remote controlled landmine in the Nad Ali district of Helmand province today (June 05), police said Tuesday. The detained suspected people were traveling in a car and wanted to plant the la...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Unidentified gunmen shot dead director information North West Frontier Province (NWFP) in Peshawar today's morning (June 05), police said. The assailant opened fire on Sayyed Mehdi Hussain, director information NWFP in Janda Bazar,...

KABUL (AIP): An estimated two dozen suspected Taliban were killed in coalition air strike in Kandahar yesterday (June 04), a coalition statement said Tuesday. ANA and Coalition forces received rocket and small-arms fire near the village of Chenar,...

JALALABAD (AIP): A suspected member of Taliban was killed in clash with Afghan border police in eastern Ningarhar province last night, an official said Tuesday (June 05). An unknown number of Taliban attacked a post of border police in the Fateh M...

KABUL (AIP): A boat filled with Taliban sank after a rocket fired by combined forces hit it in Helmand province yesterday (June 04), defence ministry said Tuesday. Approximately 25 to 30 Taliban were killed after the boat was targeted between Sang...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban have advised civilians to keep themselves away from foreign forces bases and convoys so that they may not suffer damages in attacks. A statement emailed to Afghan Islamic Press by Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said,...