KABUL (AIP): President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday (August 16) appointed former governor of Kunar province, Asadullah Wafa, as deputy minister for tribal affairs. The National Television of Afghanistan reported in it news that Asadullah Wafa was appointed deputy minister following an order of Presi...

HERAT (AIP): Taliban killed five policemen including an officer and wounded three others in Farah province on Tuesday (August 15) morning, a police official said. Former police chief of Gulistan district, Muhammad Mosa, was on way to capital of Farah province with other policemen when he was atta...

KABUL (AIP): Afghan and Coalition forces killed one suspected al Qaeda member and detained 13 other suspected terrorists today (Aug. 15) during an early morning operation conducted in Khost rovince near Yaqubi , says a coalition press release issued here on Tuesday. T he statement said the assault...

HERAT (AIP): Two workers of US Protection and Investigations (USPI), a US security service company, were wounded as Taliban attacked them in Farah province yesterday, police said Tuesday (August 15). While giving details to Afghan Islamic Press, Police Chief of Farah province, Sayed Agha Saqib sai...

KANDAHAR (AIP): An unmanned aircraft of NATO forces was crashed in Zabul province, sources said Tuesday (August 15). NATO sources told Afghan Islamic Press on condition of anonymity that an unmanned aircraft of NATO forces was crashed in Nowbahar district of Zabul province after developing technic...

KABUL (AIP): The foreign ministry and Wolesi Jirga lashed out at Iran for not taking them into confidence on the execution of an Afghan. The Iran government executed an Afghan, Najeebullah Khakrezwal, living in Iran. The foreign ministry of Afghanistan, however, said the Iran should take Afgh...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban on Tuesday reported to have killed three US soldiers in a roadside bomb explosion in Maidan Wardak province yesterday. Spokesman of Taliban fighter Dr. Muhammad Hanif phoned the office of Afghan Islamic Press from and undisclosed location and said Taliban blew up a US milit...

KABUL (AIP): Police rounded up four people yesterday for allegedly killing six people of a family in Wardak province a few days back, interior ministry said Sunday (August 13). A man, Said Alam, was murdered along with five other family members in Shaikay area of Saidabad district in Wardak provi...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Eleven Taliban fighters were killed and three others were rounded up in Helmand province on Monday (August 14), deputy governor claimed. Taliban battled with Afghan forces when the Afghan security forces were conducting search operation in Qala Gul area of Kajaki district in Helma...

KHOST (AIP): A suicide bomber wounded six soldiers of Afghan National Army and a passer by in Paktika province on Monday (August 14). The incident was happened approximately 10:30 a.m. when a suicide bomber detonated his explosive laden car near the vehicles of Afghan National Army in Barmal distr...