KABUL: (AIP): The security forces arrested two alleged drug-peddlers and recovered huge quantity of heroin from their possession in Nangarhar province last night. An interior ministry press release, available with the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP), S...

KABUL: (AIP): Two police personnel were killed and four more injured when the vehicle they were traveling in turned turtle in Logar province on Saturday (December 10). A police vehicle overturned in the limits of Pul-i-Alam, the provincial capital...

HERAT (AIP): ISAF and Afghan forces killed 10 suspected Taliban during two separate actions in Bala Balok district of western Farah province, police said Friday (Dec. 09). ISAF aircrafts targeted Taliban in Shewan area of Bala Balok district this...

KABUL (AIP): A large number of Taliban detainees escaped from a detention facility of foreign forces in Lashkargah City, capital of Helmand province, last night, Taliban claimed Friday (Dec. 09). The prisoners escaped through a tunnel, Taliban spo...

KUNDUZ (AIP): A female Russian engineer converted to Islam in northern Takhar province yesterday (Dec. 08), her Afghan colleague said Thursday. The Russian engineer Miss Olga [sic] has been working at a gold mine in Takhar province for the last t...

HERAT: (AIP): A 21-member group of armed opponents joined the peace process in Herat province on Thursday (December 08). The group of armed opponents led by their commander Sufi Abdul handed over their weapons to the concerned bodies, the Herat Po...

KABUL: (AIP): Five persons, including a district chief, were injured in separate incidents in Khost, Kunduz and Ghazni provinces, officials said Thursday (December 08). An explosive device planted in a handcart went off in Roza Sharif area, Imam S...

KABUL: (AIP): Taliban and Hizb-i-Islami Thursday (December 08) claimed conducting attacks on foreign forces in Logar, Kandahar and Helmand provinces. Taliban blew up three vehicles of the foreign forces in Maiwand district in Kandahar province tod...

PESHAWAR: (AIP): As many as 44 fuel tankers and containers of NATO were torched near Balochistan's provincial capital Quetta in Pakistan on Thursday (December 08). Police told reporters fire erupted at a parking lot of NATO fuel tankers after an a...

KABUL (AIP): President Hamid Karzai cancelled his trip to Britain after terror attacks on Shiite mourners in Kabul and Mazar-e-Sharif that left upto 59 people dead and around 150 wounded Tuesday (Dec. 06). The Afghan president was scheduled to lea...