ASADABAD (AIP): Afghan National Army (ANA) killed five mine planters and detained another in Sarkani district of eastern Kunar province last night, an official said Wednesday (Jan 11). ANA soldiers engaged a group of five mine planters in Donhi ar...

KUNDUZ (AIP): At least five people were killed and 50 more wounded when a passenger bus overturned in northern Balkh provinces today (Jan 11), doctors said Wednesday. The 303rd bus carrying passengers to Kabul from Mazar-e-Sharif overturned near H...

SHEBERGHAN: (AIP): Afghan officials and Taliban are at odds about casualties in an attack on police checkpost in Qaisar district in Faryab province last night. Spokesman for the Taliban, Qari Muhammad Yousaf Ahmadi told the Afghan Islamic Press (A...

KABUL: (AIP): Weapons seized during separate operations in various parts of Kandahar province over the past 24 hours were handed over to the Disbandment of Illegal Armed Groups (DIAG) Wednesday (January 11). The Kandahar caretaker police chief, Ge...

KANDAHAR: (AIP): Claiming responsibility for the attack on Kandahar police headquarters, the Taliban Wednesday (January 11) said five police were killed in the attack. The Taliban spokesman Qari Muhammad Yousaf Ahmadi told the Afghan Islamic Press...

KABUL: (AIP): Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba in a meeting with the Afghan President Hamid Karzai here Wednesday (January 11) invited him to attend the Tokyo International Conference on Afghanistan. A presidential press release available...

JALALABAD (AIP): At least seven people, most of them security men, were wounded in two back-to-back explosions this morning (Jan 10) in Jalalabad City, capital of eastern Ningarhar province, interior ministry said Tuesday. An explosion happened i...

KABUL: (AIP): Two armed opponents were killed and 23 more arrested during separate operations in various parts of the country, the interior ministry said Tuesday (January 10). An interior ministry press release available with the Afghan Islamic Pr...

KHOST: (AIP): A vehicle of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was damaged in an improvised explosive device blast in Khost province on Tuesday (January 10). The NATO press office in Khost told the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) an ISAF...

KHOST: (AIP): Three persons including a woman were gunned down by unidentified armed men in Alisher district in Khost province on Monday (January 09). An area resident told the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) unknown opened fire on a vehicle in Haroonk...