KABUL (PAN): Confirming the release of four Turkish engineers they had kidnapped last month in central Logar province, the Taliban on Monday promised the remaining hostages would be freed soon.
KABUL (PAN): Eight individuals were convicted on drug-trafficking charges and awarded different jail sentences of by the Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) on Monday.
HERAT CITY (PAN): Ninety-seven prisoners were released on Monday from the main prison in western Herat in province in compliance with a presidential decree issued on the Mujahidin Victory Day, an official said.
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): Three Afghan Local Police (ALP) members and one civilian were killed and three others wounded in two separate roadside bombings in northern Baghlan province, an official said on Monday.
KABUL (PAN): The Taliban on Monday denounced the killing and wounding of Afghan workers by Iranian border guards, calling last week’s shooting a violation of the human rights good neighbourliness.
KABUL (PAN): Seven people have been killed and more than 65 others injured in a suicide attack in the capital of Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province, Pakistani media reported on Monday.
KABUL (PAN): The Ministry of Interior (MoI) on Sunday announced the sacking of two border police officers and referring them to the prosecutor's office for failing to stop some Afghans from crossing the border into Iran from northwestern Farah province.
ASADABAD (PAN): A 16-member insurgent group reconciled with the government in eastern Kunar province bordering Pakistan's Bajuar tribal region, the governor said on Sunday.
KANDAHAR (PAN): NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) soldiers killed two civilians and detained four others in a nighttime raid in southern Kandahar province, locals claimed on Sunday.
