KABUL (AIP): Taliban on Thursday (Jan 12) claimed they had killed four police and wounded as many during a clash in Maqur district of Badghis province. Local officials, however, rejected the Taliban claims. A clash took place between Taliban and p...

KABUL: (AIP): The Taliban claimed to have killed a local police commander in Nawa district in Helmand province last night. The Taliban spokesman Qari Muhammad Yousaf Ahmadi Thursday (January 12) told the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) their fighters s...

KANDAHAR: (AIP): The Panjwai District Chief Fazluddin Agha was killed in an explosion in Panjwai district in Kandahar province Thursday (January 12). The Kandahar media office and son of the deceased, Jamal Agha, told the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP...

HERAT: (AIP): Two guards of a private security company were killed and another injured in an improvised explosive device blast in Bakwa district in Farah province Thursday (January 12). Vehicle of a private security company, Salarzai, struck an IE...

KABUL: (AIP): The world's biggest copy of the holy Quran written by an Afghan calligraphy artist was Thursday (January 12) placed in Kabul for viewers. A ceremony was held at the Nasir Khusro Balkhi Library in Kabul in this regard. Addressing t...

KABUL: (AIP): Condemning the desecration of the Afghan corpses by US troops, the US Defence Minister in a telephonic call to the Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday (January 12) pledged to conduct serious investigation into the incident. The...

LASHKARGAH (AIP): A young farmer was killed in a landmine blast this morning (Jan 11) in Gereshk district of southern Helmand province, police Wednesday. The incident happened at approximately 9:00 a.m. (local time) in Saidano Qala village, Nahar...

HERAT (AIP): Unidentified gunmen kidnapped a tribal elder in Teura district of Ghor province last night, police said Wednesday. Colonel Abdul Rasheed Bashir, security chief of Ghor province, told Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) that the tribal elder G...

KABUL (AIP): An explosion happened inside the police headquarters in Kandahar City, capital of troubled Kandahar province, a while ago, but there were no further details, security chief of Kandahar province, Rahmatullah Atrafi, told Afghan Islamic Pr...

KABUL (AIP): Afghan and coalition forces killed a dozen suspected gunmen and detained 44 others during separate operations over the past 24 hours, ISAF and interior ministry said Wednesday (Jan 10). A press release issued by interior ministry sa...