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HERAT (AIP): Three Afghan security officials were killed when they were defusing a bomb and it went off in the western Herat province today (Feb. 07), police said Wednesday. The security officials were defusing a remote controlled bomb a the Gardanak check post of Sheendand district when it deton...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Three children were wounded when mortar rounds, fired by insurgents on ISAF base in Gereshk district, of Helmand province, missed their target and landed in a village today (Feb. 07), ISAF said Wednesday. "The children were carried by their parents to the Forward Operating Base (FO...
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JALALABAD (AIP): At least five people including four policemen were wounded as growers clashed with police destroying poppy corps in the eastern Ningarhar province today (Feb. 07), police said Wednesday. Some growers resisted the poppy eradication operation in Ghani Khail district and clashed wit...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): A suicide bomber attacked a check post in the Zehri district of Kandahar province today (Feb. 07), killing three policemen and wounding as many others, ISAF said Wednesday. The injured policemen were rushed to ISAF medical facility at Kandahar Airport, ISAF spokesman in Khandahar,...
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KABUL (AIP): Coalition forces killed two Taliban during a clash in Zabul province today (Feb. 07), Coalition said late Wednesday night. A Coalition Forces convoy was attacked with small arms fire and rocket propelled grenades today at approximately 4:39 p.m. four kilometers north of Mizan, Zabul Pro...
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KABUL (AIP): Police recovered a cache of explosive materials in the eastern Kunar province yesterday (Feb. 05), interior ministry said Tuesday. The ammunition cache, consisting of anti-personnel mines, rounds of small and heavy weapons and other explosive materials, was discovered in the Ghaziab...
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JALALABAD (AIP): While retreating of their offer of new agreement on Musa Qala, Taliban on Tuesday said they would hold no more talks on this issue. A statement issued by Taliban media committee and received by Afghan Islamic Press via email, says, "By breaching on the Musa Qala agreement the forei...
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KABUL (AIP): A senior Taliban commander was killed in a precision air strike by ISAF, in Musa Qala district yesterday (Feb. 04), an ISAF statement said Monday. The statement said Abdul Ghafour was a key Taliban leader who played an instrumental part in the seizure of Musa Qala district centre on...
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KABUL (AIP): Another phase of Operation OQAB was completed on Friday night following a two-day, multinational mission to the Khaks-e Safid district of Farah province, an ISAF statement said Sunday (Feb. 04). As with all OQAB operations in Regional Command-West, the mission was led by Afghan Sec...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban Sunday (Feb. 04) proposed new agreement in the troubled Musa Qala district of southern Helmand province for "complete restoration of peace" in the area. "We want complete peace in the Musa Qala district and we retreated in the past on the request of the elders of the from t...