JALALABAD (AIP): The students of Ningarhar University vowed to hold a demonstration against the reported killing of civilians in US troops' fire after talks between Ningarhar Shura and students failed last night, an official said Tuesday (March. 06). Talking to Afghan Islamic Press Deputy Chi...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Three children were killed and as many wounded when a mortar shell they were playing with exploded in Zabul province today (March. 06), a security official said Tuesday. The children were playing with the mortar shell in the Seuri district of Zabul province when it went off, killi...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Baitullah Mehsud of Waziristan agency of Pakistan has entered into the southern Helmand province of Afghanistan along with other fighters for carrying out terrorist activities, governor said Tuesday (March 06). "In a recent attacked he slaughtered eleven people in a village on cha...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Two police were killed and eight civilians were wounded in a bomb explosion at a fair in Helmand province today (March. 06), eyewitnesses said Tuesday. The fair is held twice in a week in Marja district and it was on its peak today when the explosion took place, an eyewitness told...

KANDAHAR (AIP): A policeman was killed as Taliban clashed with police in Helmand province early today (March. 05), governor said Monday. The firefight continued till 9:30 a.m. after Taliban attacked a check post at Nowzad bus stand in the northern part of Greshek district of Helmand province, sai...

JALALABAD (AIP): Pneumonia, diarrhea and several other diseases on the rise in the northern Badakhshan province and have killed 40 children and six women during the last one and half month, official said Sunday (March 4). "During the last one and a half month about 40 children between the age...

HERAT (AIP): A bicycle bomb killed two civilians and wounded six others when it detonated moments after the passing of foreign troops convoy in Herat City today (March. 3), security officials said Saturday. It was a remote controlled bomb planted in bicycle to target foreign troops but the foreig...

HERAT (AIP): Two people were killed and 16 wounded, two of them critically, in a bomb explosion in Herat City today (March 3), doctor and security officials said Saturday. A security official had said earlier that six people were wounded. However, a doctor of emergency unit in Herat Hospital,...

KABUL (AIP): Chiefs of all 34 provincial councils demanded President Hamid Karzai to sign the amnesty bill that would grant war crimes amnesty to the warlords involving in war crimes after 1978. The demand was made in a seminar organized at Kabul to discuss the controversial war crimes amn...

KABUL (AIP): Afghan and Coalition forces arrested one "known terrorist" and seven other suspects early today (March 02) in the Gorwek Valley area of Paktika Province, a coalition statement said Friday. The statement said the arrests were made in connection with aiding terrorist fighters and facili...