PESHAWAR (AIP): Vehicular traffic on two routes have been blocked in eastern Kunor province as River Kunor is in flood, governor said. Governor of Kunor Asadullah Wafa told AIP on Tuesday that Asadabad-Bari Kot road was badly affected and it has been blocked at Naari area due to rising of water...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Two persons were killed and four others wounded on Tuesday morning when a vehicle turned turtle on Kabul-Jalalabad Highway. According to details, a Kabul-bounded coaster traveling to Jalalabad overturned at Latabund area, on Kabul-Jalalabad Highway, killing two persons and woundi...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Twenty-nine people were killed and 40 others wounded when floodwater submerged 65 villages in northern Badakhshaan province, governor said Tuesday. Giving details to Afghan Islamic Press, Governor Munshi Abdul Majeed told AIP that floods inundated 65, leaving 29 people dead and 40...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Unknown gunmen gunned down a candidate in volatile Kandahar province on Tuesday, an official confirmed. Muhammad Qaher Wasefi, a local elections official in Kandahar confirmed to AIP that a candidate was traveling in a vehicle to Ghorak district when unidentified armed men opened...

PESHAWAR (AIP): At least one police was killed and another wounded when Taliban attacked their security post on Kabul-Kandahar Highway last night, an official confirmed. Spokesman of Zabul province Gulab Shah Alikhail told AIP on Monday morning that the Taliban attacked the post of highway guards...

PESHAWAR (AIP): A high ranking Afghan official alleged that a Taliban commander sent three Pakistani nationals to assassinate American ambassador Zalmay. The official told AIP on Monday on condition of anonymity that they wanted to kill the US ambassador who had come to Charbagh area to inaugura...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban on Monday freed 23 hostages held at southern Mianesheen district, Kandahar province, they said. Taliban spokesman Mufti Lateefullah Hakeemi told AIP that 23 officials including district incharge Malik Noor Muhammad, who had been taken hostage on Thursday, were released on...

BAGRAM AIRFIELD (AIP): Three US service members and an Afghan National Army soldier were wounded June 19 by improvised explosive devices in separate explosions north of Salerno in Khost Province, coalition said Monday. All four were treated and released. The ANA Soldier was wounded in the first at...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Former chief commander of Herat Army Division General Muhammad Zahir Nayabzada died in a road mishap on Kabul-Mazar-e-Sharif Highway on Sunday, his brother confirmed. The brother of ex-military official General Ameer Shah told AIP that Nayabzada was going to Kabul from Badghees i...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban claimed to have killed an elder in southern Helmund province on Saturday. Taliban spokesman Mufti Lateefullah Hakeemi told AIP that Abdul Hameed was reportedly involved in spying for the US forces. He was killed at Toghi village of Musa Qalla district. When contac...