Security & Crime

MEHTARLAM (Pajhwok): Security officials have arrested three persons for allegedly making counterfeit passports in the capital of eastern Laghman province. Laghman police spokesman Youna Yousafzai

QALA-I-NAW (Pajhwok): A United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) security guard has died after accidently shooting himself in northwestern Badghis province . . .

FEROZKOH (Pajhwok): Six members of a family have been killed as a result of a grenade explosion in western Ghor province, an official said on

KABUL (Pajhwok): A former Australian trooper has become the first soldier to be charged with a war crime committed in Afghanistan, a media report said

TALOQAN (Pajhwok): About 26,000 acres of grabbed land has been retaken in Takhar and 12,500 acres in Farah province, officials say. Mohammad Arif . .

SHEBERGHAN (Pajhwok): Unidentified assailants stabbed to death a hajj and religious affairs official for the Aqcha district of northern Jawzjan province, police said on Sunday

MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): Five Daesh militants killed in Friday night operations in Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of northern Balkh province were Tajikistan and Uzbekistan nationals, an official

QALA-I-NAW (Pajhwok): A 50-year-old woman has been found dead in Qala-i-Naw city of western Badghis province, police said on Saturday. Police spokesman Seddiqullah Seddiqi today

KHOST CITY (Pajhwok): A drug addict has gunned his son and daughter and wounded his mother and before being shot dead in southeastern Khost province

ATLANTA (Pajhwok): Security forces have conducted operations in three locations of Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of northern Balkh province, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) said