PESHAWAR (AIP): Some unidentified armed men attacked coalition troops while the allied forces bombed hideouts of suspected insurgents in southeastern Afghan Province on Friday, reports said. Informed sources told AIP that some assailants attacked a patrolling party of coalition troops at Inzargi wi...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban have claimed killing 12 American soldiers following attack on a convoy in Helmund province on Thursday (April 8). A statement issued with signature of Hamid Agha, a spokesman for Taliban on Friday evening said that 12 US soldiers were killed when a convoy of American forces...

PESHAWAR (AIP): The forces of Uzbek warlord General Rasheed Dostum took control of Maymana, the capital of northern Faryab province on Thursday, reports said. Sources from Mazar-e-Sharif told AIP that Uzbek army entered Maymana city today afternoon after brief fighting in the area. The governor of...

PESHAWAR (AIP): A meeting of Pakistani, Afghanistan and American military officials was held at Torkhum border on Thursday, reports said. AIP sources said that the meeting was attended by officials of three countries and discussed various matters pertaining to travelling across the border. The me...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Authorities of eastern Nangarhar province have started eradication campaign of standing poppy plants in the area on Wednesday, reports said. AIP stringer in Chahar Bagh-e-Safa said that instead of using tractors, the government servants were destroying standing crop with wooden stic...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Hizb-e-Islami of Afghanistan strongly disputed reports that some of its members surrendered to Afghan government in Kabul and termed it a conspiracy of occupational forces. A press statement issued to newspapers in Peshawar on Thursday evening said that there was pressure on Hizb a...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Three persons were injured following severe earthquake in Kabul and other parts of the country on Tuesday morning, reports said. A doctor from Shahar-e-Nouw, Kabul who owns a small clinic told AIP today morning that three injured including a foreigner (might be an Italian but not c...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Several people were injured including a female singer when students of Nangarhar University interrupted a musical concert in eastern Afghan province on last Wednesday (March 31), reports said. The concert was being held on the campus in connection with upcoming polls in Afghanistan....

PESHAWAR (AIP): Five people were injured last night when a rocket hit Gurbuz hotel in Khost, eyewitnesses said. They told AIP from Khost that the rocket also damaged the building of the hotel and a radio station (Sulaise Paigham) in the attack. Ends

PESHAWAR (AIP): A man was killed by the US forces who allegedly tried to carry out a suicide attack against them near Jalalabad airport today. Nangarhar deputy governor Dr. Mohammad Asif told AIP that the man killed by the US forces allegedly tried to conduct a suicide attack against the US force...