SHEBARGHAN (AIP): Unidentified kidnapped three workers of a relief organization yesterday (Feb. 01) in Qaram Qul district of northern Faryab province, police said Thursday. The two workers of Kawar, a non-governmental organization, including a do...

KABUL/KANDAHAR: (AIP): The security forces arrested 50 outlaws, including armed opponents, criminals and drug-peddlers in separate operation in various parts of the country, the Afghan Interior Ministry and officials said Thursday (February 02). A...

HERAT: (AIP): Twenty armed opponents, including a commander, joined the peace process in Farah province Thursday (February 02). Led by their commander Haji Nooruddin, the 10-member group of the armed opponents joined the peace drive in Farah City,...

LASHKARGAH: (AIP): The Helmand Governor Muhammad Gulab Mangal signed 40 development projects with contractors in Lashkargah, the provincial capital of Helmand, on Thursday (February 02). A press release available with the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP...

MAZAR-I-SHARIF: (AIP): The police shot dead a person and injured two more in Tashqurghan district in Balkh province Thursday (February 02). The police ordered the security guards of tribal elder, Abdul Rauf Afghan, to put down weapons, an area res...

HERAT: (AIP): An Afghan civilian was killed in an improvised explosive device blast in Ghorian district in Herat province Thursday (February 02). A security official told the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) that an IED went off on a tractor vehicle in...

KHOST: (AIP): An explosion took place on the Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers in Khost province Thursday (February 02). An ANA official told the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) that an explosion happened on ANA soldiers in Khost City, leaving two tr...

KABUL: (AIP): Three Taliban fighters were killed and another sustained injuries during gunfight with joint force in Khansheen district in Helmand province yesterday (January 31). The Taliban spokesman Qari Muhammad Yousaf Ahmadi told the Afghan Is...

KABUL: (AIP): The United States Ambassador to Kabul Ryan Crocker has said that the US would spend 35 percent of its assistance in Afghanistan through the Afghan government in 2013. This he said while addressing a gathering held in Kabul on Wednesd...

SHERBERGHAN: (AIP): The Taliban allegedly abducted two engineers of the Afghan Wireless Communication Company (AWCC) along with their driver in Sar-i-Pul province Wednesday (February 01). The Sar-i-Pul police headquarters security in-charge Syed J...