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KABUL (AIP): Afghan security forces arrested a suspected terrorist and two alleged smugglers in separate incidents in Logar and Laghman provinces yesterday, interior ministry said Thursday (Feb. 01). A terrorist preparing suicide bombers was captured with some documents and explosive materials in...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Afghan and foreign forces killed 30 Taliban during joint operations conducted in the southern Helmand province yesterday, police said Thursday (Feb. 01). Mulla Sher Agha, a Taliban commander was also among the 30 fighters killed during operations in the Kajaki district, police chi...
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KHOST (AIP): A NATO air strike killed eight Taliban in Paktika province last night, governor said Thursday (Feb. 01). The NATO aircraft struck Taliban in the Pir Koti area of Urgun district after Taliban attacked police, said Dr. Muhammad Akram Khpalwak, governor of Paktika province. He told A...
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JALALABAD (AIP): Police arrested director refugee of Ningarhar province today (Feb. 2) on charges of embezzlement in government funds, sources said Thursday. Maulvi Shamal Khan, director refugees Ningarhar, was nabbed on the order of Attorney General of Afghanistan. Several serving and retired o...
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KABUL (AIP): A roadside bomb exploded near the vehicle of Chinese road construction company in Faryab Jan. 29, slightly damaging the vehicle, a security official said Wednesday (Jan. 31). The vehicle was damaged but the inmates did not suffer any damages when the landmine went off in the Dawai ar...
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KABUL (AIP): Taliban attacked Forward Operating Base Bari Kot in the Kunar province early Saturday morning, killing one civilian contractor and injuring three others, a coalition statement said Wednesday (Jan. 31). Coalition forces took rocket and small arms fire from two nearby ridges and retu...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Two people were killed when a vehicle they were traveling in hit a roadside bomb blast in Kandahar province yesterday, police said Wednesday (Jan. 31). General Asmatullah, police chief of Kandahar province told Afghan Islamic Press that the incident was happened Woch Seend road in...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Afghan police arrested four alleged smugglers and recovered 200 kilograms of opium in two separate incidents yesterday in Kandahar, police said Wednesday (Jan. 31). Police separately intercepted two vehicles in the Arghistan district, recovering 130 kilograms of opium from one veh...
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KHOST (AIP): Taliban attacked a police post in Paktika province today (Jan. 31), killing three policemen and wounding two others, police said Wednesday. Governor of Paktika province, Dr. Muhammad Akram Khpawak told Afghan Islamic Press the police post was attacked in Speen area of Barmal distric...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Two Taliban were killed in a clash with police in the Mezana district of Zabul province last night, a security officer said Tuesday (Jan. 30). Police ambushed a Taliban commander Qari Razeq and his bodyguard Muhammad Khan in Barko area, killing both of them, said Brigadier Rabbani...