News
-
KANDAHAR (AIP): Vehicle Born Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED) exploded prematurely on Highway 1 on the eastside of Kandahar City, injuring seven civilians including one woman and two children. No coalition force soldiers were killed or injured in this attack, says a press release issued by the PR...
-
JALALABAD (AIP): Taliban fighters shot dead four people including a district incharge, two policemen and his driver in Laghman province on Thursday, eyewitness said.Taliban guerillas opened indiscriminate firing at the vehicle of Abdul Qadar, incharge of Dolat Shah District in Zard Kamar area of eas...
-
KHOST (AIP): A criminal prisoner was found dead in the bathroom of Khost Jail on Thursday, officials said.Jailer of Khost Prison, Abdul Mateen, told Afghan Islamic Press that prisoner Badshah Noor entered the bathroom on the pretext of taking bath but he was found dead in the bathroom.He said the pr...
-
KABUL (AIP): Second Deputy Afghan President Muhammad Karim Khalili will inaugurate the newly constrict mausoleum of Abdul Ali Mazar tomorrow.Muhammad Karim Khalili arrived in Mazar-e-Sharif today and he will attend the inauguration ceremony of the newly constructed mausoleum of Abdul Ali Mazari, a S...
-
KABUL (AIP): Two coalition soldiers including, one American, were killed and four wounded in Taliban attack in troubled Helmand province, coalition forces said on Wednesday. One Afghan National Army soldier was also wounded.Coalition forces employed a variety of combined arms to include close a...
-
JALALABAD (AIP): A road accident on Kabul-Jalalabad highway left two people dead and 17 wounded in Ningarhar province on Wednesday.A Benz vehicle carrying passengers from Laghman to Jalalabad collided head-on with a truck on Kabul-Jalalabad highway near Surkhakan area, as a result two passengers wer...
-
JALALABAD (AIP): British soldiers destroyed a part of crashed helicopter with explosive materials in Spin Ghar district of eastern Ningarhar province on Monday after shifting some of its parts, local police said.Police chief of Spin Ghar district, Ahmad Shah Hemmat told Afghan Islamic Press that Bri...
-
KANDAHAR (AIP): A heavy explosion left two people dead in northern part of Kandahar city on Tuesday morning.
-
PESHAWAR (AIP): Sectarian clashes in Bara, Khyber Agency, left 22 people dead, most of them Afghan refugees, and 13 wounded, residents of the area said on Tuesday.
-
KABUL (AIP): Abdur Rahman, who had been jailed in Kabul for converting to Christianity from Islam 16 years back, was released on Tuesday on the grounds that he is mentally ill.