GHAZNI (AIP): Unidentified gunmen torched two schools and damaged another during separate attacks in Ghazni and Ningarhar provinces, officials said Tuesday. Hussaini Mubarak Azizi, director education of Ghazni province, told Afghan Islamic Press (...

HERAT (AIP): Security forces seized huge quantity of explosive materials and mines in Sheendand district of western Herat province today (June 28), police said Tuesday. The security forces intercepted a trailer vehicle in Azizabad area of Sheendan...

GHAZNI (AIP): Taliban killed five guards of a private security company this morning (June 28) in Ghazni province, police said Tuesday. Taliban ambushed the private guards between Aab Ban and Qarabagh districts, killing five guards, Zrawar Khan Zah...

KABUL: (AIP): Setting a four-day deadline for the Attorney General to step down from his job, the Wolesi Jirga demanded implementation of its decision regarding six judges of the Supreme Court including the chief justice. Setting the deadline for...

KHOST: (AIP): Three Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers were killed when their vehicle struck an improvised explosive device in Barmal district of Paktika province on Monday (June 27). A high-ranking military official, wishing not to be named, tol...

KABUL: (AIP): Seven persons including two minors were killed in separate bomb blasts in Ghazni province on Monday (June 27). An interior ministry press release said a passengers-carrying vehicle hit a landmine in Shahbaz area of Ghazni city at abo...

KHOST: (AIP): Unidentified armed men gunned down a teacher in Nadir Shah Kot district of Khost province on Monday (June 27). A tribal elder of Shambawar area, located near Nadir Shah Kot district, Syed Anwar Shah told the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP...

HERAT: (AIP): Armed opponents set on fire a mobile tower of MTN Afghanistan in Pakhtun Zarghun district of Herat province last night, an official said on Monday (June 27). The Herat police headquarters spokesman Noor Khan Naikzad told the Afghan I...

KUNDUZ: (AIP): Afghan officials and Taliban are at odds about an incident in the provincial capital of Kunduz yesterday (June 26). The Kunduz Police Chief Samiullah Qatra told the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) that a clash erupted between Taliban and...

KABUL: (AIP): The Chief of Army Staff of Pakistan General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani called on the Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the presidential palace here Monday (June 27). A presidential media centre press release said the Afghan Defence Minister...