Provinces

• Foreign nationals seen among Logar insurgents

  KABUL: Officials in eastern Logar province said that foreign nationals were seen among the Afghan Taliban fighters in some parts of the province, who regularly launching armed attacks against the Afghan troops. Baraki B READ MORE

• 11 dead in fire at Kandahar anti-Pakistan protest; 30 held

  KANDAHAR CITY: Eleven people were killed in fire at an anti-Pakistan protest in the Maiwand district of southern Kandahar province, officials said on Wednesday. Javed Faisal, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afg READ MORE

• Nangarhar university students declare jihad on Pakistan

  JALALABAD: Hundreds of the students of the eastern Nangarhar province early Wednesday have launched an anti-Pakistan protest, condemning Pakistan’s military forwarding, rocket shelling and “declared Jihad.” The pr READ MORE

• Ghazni schools reopen after 9 years

  GHAZNI CITY: Officials in southern Ghazni province on Wednesday reopened four schools that had been closed nine years ago due to clashes between security forces and insurgents. The schools resumed functioning in Ghazni READ MORE

• 3 civilians dead in Helmand bombing

  LASHKARGAH: Eight civilians were killed and wounded when the vehicle they were travelling in struck a roadside bomb in southern Helmand province on Wednesday, an official said. The explosion left three people dead and f READ MORE

• Tens of shaved Taliban show presence in Kunduz

  KABUL: Officials in southeast Kunduz province said on Monday that tens of the Taliban fighters have newly arrived in the province from Pakistan to fuel destructive activities in the country. The district chief in Dasht- READ MORE

• KICD mulling to Kandahar museum, library extension

  KABUL: Kandahar Information and Culture Directorate (KICD) said that different plans were on cards to build new buildings for provincial museum and public library in order to keep safe the artifacts and promote the book READ MORE

• 13 Ghazni uprising members killed in Taliban attack

  GHAZNI CITY: Thirteen members of a anti-Taliban militia were killed in an attack by the Taliban fighters in the militancy-plagued Andar district of southern Ghazni province on Friday, an official said. The incident took READ MORE

• 7 civilians dead in Shindand blast

  HERAT CITY: Seven civilians were killed and three others sustained injuries on Wednesday when a roadside bomb tore through a truck carrying a Kuchi family to the Shindad district of western Herat province, officials said READ MORE

• Hundreds protest against Pakistan for building gate on Afgha

  KABUL: Hundreds of University students, in eastern Nangarhar province, on Monday staged protest to condemn Pakistan for illegal construction a gate on the de facto frontier—the Durand Line and the United States for civ READ MORE

• Girl trades fire with police before surrender

  PUL-I-KHUMRI: A teenage girl exchanged fire with police for 40 minutes before her surrender in northern Baghlan province, officials said on Sunday. The 17-year-old opened fire at the headquarters of Tala Wa Barfak distr READ MORE

• Security on high alert in Ghazni: MoI

  KABUL: Ministry of Interior (MoI) on Saturday said that concrete security measures were taken in Ghazni as the province prepare itself for celebration after earning title of ‘Cultural and Civilization Capital of Islami READ MORE

• Chopper destroyed in rockets attack

  KABUL: Three rockets were fired on Jalalabad airport on Saturday morning, as a result a chopper was destroyed but no causality was reported, official sources said. On Saturday morning militants fired three rockets on Ja READ MORE

• 3 gunned down in Ghazni; tractor kills kids in Uruzgan

  KABUL: Three men were shot dead while asleep as a result of a prior enmity in Deh Yak district of southern Ghazni province, while three children accidently died in central Uruzgan province, officials said on Sunday. A m READ MORE

• 2 policemen killed in Jawzjan

  SHIBERGHAN: Two local policemen were killed and as many others joined Taliban in the northern province of Uruzgan, officials said on Sunday. The two local policemen were killed on Saturday night when Taliban fighters at READ MORE

• Journalists barred from covering Ghazni ceremony

  GHAZNI CITY: Some journalists on Saturday said they were barred from covering a just-started historic festival of celebrating the selection of Ghanzi city as the Asian capital of Islamic Civilization. The reporters said READ MORE

• 13,000 girls deprived of education in Khost

  KHOST CITY: Nearly 13,000 girls in southeastern Khost province were deprived of education during last academic year as a result of defunct schools, the education director acknowledged on Thursday. Bakht Noor Bakhtiar to READ MORE

• Women among 7 killed in Helmand

  LASHKARGAH: Three women were among seven civilians killed in a roadside bombing and in a Taliban-fired rocket incident in Khanshin and Musa Qala districts of southern Helmand province, officials said on Tuesday. Five pe READ MORE

• Taliban commander killed in Nangarhar

  AT News Report KABUL: NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) on Tuesday said that a senior Taliban commander was killed in Nangarhar province. In a press statement issued here ISAF said that Taliban co READ MORE

• Iranian national gets death sentence for spying

  KABUL: An Iranian national has been sentenced to death for spying by an Afghan court on Tuesday. Official sources said that a court in western Badghis province awarded death sentence to the Iranian spy who was arrested READ MORE