Quetta, May 22 (ANI): The NATO and US troops have started withdrawal of their equipment from Afghanistan after more than ten years of war.

Beijing, May 18 (Xinhua-ANI): At least nine people were killed and more than 55 others wounded Friday evening when two back-to-back explosions rocked Kandahar city, capital of the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, a provincial government spokesman said.

London, May 10 (ANI): Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said that the government could allow the US to keep nine bases in the country after most NATO forces withdraw next year, but added that he had demanded security and economic guarantees from the US in return.

Kandahar (Afghanistan), April 18 (Xinhua-ANI): At least two persons were injured after a powerful blast rocked the southern town of Spinboldak in Kandahar province 450 km south of Kabul on Thursday.

Kabul, Mar. 18 (Xinhua-ANI): Units of Afghan national police during series of operations across the country over the past 24 hours have killed 12 Taliban militants, Interior Ministry said in a statement released here on Monday.

London, Feb. 8 (ANI): Iran has released video footage and still images that it claimed were extracted from a US surveillance drone it captured two years ago ,which is evidence of the Islamic republic's capability to decode the secret data obtained by the spy aircraft.

Kandahar, Dec. 3 (Xinhua-ANI): Afghan forces arrested Juma Khan, a senior Taliban leader in former Taliban stronghold Kandahar on Sunday, provincial administration said in a statement Monday.

Islamabad, Oct. 10 (ANI): Afghan security officials have expelled over 30 'Pakistani clerics' from mosques in Kandahar province over 'provocative speeches' encouraging people for an 'uprising against the government', an Afghan official has said.

Kabul, July 26 (Xinhua-ANI): Afghan national police units during series of operations across the country have killed seven anti- government militants and detained 37 others over the past 24 hours, Interior Ministry said on Thursday.

Kabul, July 21 (Xinhua-ANI): Six insurgents had been killed and three others detained in military operations within the past 24 hours, the Afghan Interior Ministry said Saturday. "Afghan police, army and coalition forces launched seven joint cleanup operations in Takhar, Kandahar, Zabul, Herat, Farah and Helmand provinces, killing six armed Taliban insurgents and detaining three others,"the ministry said in a statement.

Kabul, July 11 (Xinhua-ANI): Up to 12 Taliban insurgents have been killed and 20 detained in military operations in nine Afghan provinces within the past 24 hours, the country's Interior Ministry said Wednesday morning.

Kandahar, July 9 (Xinhua-ANI): An explosive device planted in a rickshaw exploded in Kandahar city, the capital of the southern Afghan province of Kandahar on Monday, killing five people and wounding six others, spokesman for provincial administration Jawed Faisal said.

Kabul, June 30 (Xinhua-ANI): Afghan police backed by army and the NATO-led forces have killed 44 anti-government armed militants over the past 24 hours, Interior Ministry said in a statement on Saturday.

Kabul, June 25 (Xinhua-ANI): Afghan police and army, backed by NATO-led coalition troops, have killed five Taliban insurgents and captured nine other suspects throughout the post 24 hours, the Afghan Interior Ministry said on Monday.

Kabul, June 14 (Xinhua-ANI): A local Taliban commander was killed Thursday in an operation carried out by Afghan forces and NATO-led coalition troops in the country's southern province of Kandahar, the coalition said in a statement.

Kabul, May 1 (Xinhua-ANI): Afghan police, backed by army and NATO-led coalition forces, have eliminated 19 Taliban militants during cleanup operations across the country within the past 24 hours, the Afghan Interior Ministry said on Tuesday morning. "Afghan National Police (ANP), Afghan National Army, NDS or Afghan intelligence agency and Coalition Forces launched 11 joint cleanup operations in Kabul, Baghlan, Faryab, Kandahar, Helmand, Wardak, Logar, Khost, and Farah provinces over the past 24 hours," the ministry said in a statement.

Kandahar (Afghanistan), April 26 (Xinhua-ANI): Eight Taliban militants were killed during an operation in southern Afghan province of Kandahar, provincial police chief said on Thursday.

Washington, Mar 26 (ANI): The United States has reportedly paid 50,000 dollars in compensation for each Afghan killed in a shooting rampage allegedly carried out by an American soldier in Kandahar province.

Kabul, Mar 12(ANI): The Taliban has vowed to avenge the death of 16 Afghan civilians, who were killed in a house-to-house shooting spree in Panjwayi district, Kandahar by an American soldier.

Islamabad, Mar 3 (ANI): A suicide bomber on a motorcycle attacked a NATO convoy in Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar on Friday, wounding seven people including four soldiers, an official has revealed.

Karachi, Mar.1 (ANI): The Quetta-based Taliban have started to show signs of flexibility towards dialogue, according to the head of a provincial Afghan peace council.

Karachi, Feb 23(ANI): The Afghan Taliban has rejected reports of it having talks with the Kandahar Peace Council in Pakistan.

Kabul, Jan 14 (ANI): A 13-year-old Afghan boy, who was picked up by insurgents to carry out a suicide bombing, has revealed how he was brainwashed into believing that "bombs would not kill him, and that only the Americans would die".

Kabul, Nov 1 (ANI): Suicide attackers blew up a truck bomb and raided UN and US development offices in Kandahar, killing five Afghans there.

Kandahar, August 30(ANI): Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Omar has said that limited withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan is not a solution to the Afghan conflict, and that their Jihad will continue till the complete pullout of occupation forces from the war-ravaged country.