Afghan acting regime has launched an operation against militant Islamic State group in southern Afghanistan. Police Chief Abdul Ghafar Mohammadi while talking to AFP said the operation against Islamic State-Khorasan was started around in four districts of Kandahar province previous night.

At least nine civilians were killed in a landmine and an improvised explosive device (IED) in Afghanistan on the first day of the Eid al-Fitr despite a brief truce for the Muslim festival, officials confirmed Tuesday. Authorities in the restive southern Kandahar province said two ...

In Afghanistan, 15 Taliban were killed during clashes with security forces in Kandahar province on Thursday. Meanwhile, in another incident, an Islamic scholar Mullah Abdul Baqi was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Kandahar.

Taliban on Monday accused the US government of violating the US-Taliban agreement signed in February in Doha. The group claimed that the US has carried out airstrikes in Nangarhar, Helmand, and Kandahar provinces. Taliban stated, the airstrikes were conducted in support of the Afghan infantry ...

Local officials in Ghazni province said, six Afghan National Army members were killed in an insider attack by the Taliban infiltrators on Tuesday. According to the officials, Six ANA personnel were killed in a security outpost in the Tawhid Abad area of Ghazni province on Monday night. The ...

In Afghanistan, Afghan security personnel have abandoned nearly 200 checkpoints in restive Kandahar province in recent weeks. Kandahar Provincial Governor Hayatullah Hayat and a local lawmaker separately confirmed the situation to AFP, saying commanders would be disciplined for their ...

Afghanistan on Sunday claimed to have killed at least 90 Taliban militants amid heavy fighting in Kandahar province. The Defense Ministry said multiple assaults by the Taliban were repulsed, and subsequent clean-up operations conducted in different districts of the restive southern ...

ISLAMABAD- In Afghanistan, eight people have been killed and two others injured in two separate explosions in Kabul and Kandahar provinces. According to police officials, eight people were killed in bomb explosion in Arghistan district of Kandahar province while two people were injured when bomb ...

ISLAMABAD-In Afghanistan, 20 Taliban have been killed during a series of airstrikes in Kandahar province. According to Afghan Special Forces, airstrikes carried out on Taliban positions in Maakin and Bagh villages of Daman district.

In Afghanistan, nine people have been killed and five others wounded when a passenger bus struck a roadside bomb in Kandahar province. No militant group has so far claimed the responsibility for the attack.