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JALALABAD (AIP): Coalition air strike killed a key Taliban commander in the Alishang district of Laghman province April. 20, the US-led coalition said Wednesday. "Fateh Gul Haqparast, an important militant organizer and leader with extensive ties to the Gulbuddin Hekmatyar network, as well as Tal...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): A three-member delegation of United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) visited the Area Study Centre of Peshawar University April. 23 and exchanged views with its faculty on current Afghan situation with particular reference to peace and stability in that insurgency-st...
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MAZAR-E-SHARIF (AIP): Two roadside bombs detonated separately in the Talogan City, capital of northern Takhar province today (April. 25), killing a man, security sources said Wednesday. Informed sources told Afghan Islamic Press that the first roadside bomb exploded in front of the provincial go...
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KABUL (AIP): Seven Taliban and three security guards of a road construction company were killed during a clash in Ghazni province yesterday (April. 24), interior ministry said Wednesday. The clash took place in the Qarabagh district of Ghazni province as Taliban attacked security guards of a cons...
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KHOST (AIP): Taliban on Wednesday (April. 25) claimed responsibility of suicide attack in Paktika province and said it caused heavy casualties. Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, in an email to Afghan Islamic Press said, "A Talib suicide bomber attacked the convoy of district chief of Maddah...
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HERAT (AIP): Afghan security forces detained two people during operations conducted in the Guzra district of Herat province today after the killing of security in-charge of Salam dam and two police, security officials said Wednesday. Four hundred Security personnel, one hundred each from Afghan N...
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KABUL (AIP): Afghan security forces arrested a would-be suicide bomber in Kabul today who wanted to attack defence forces, defence ministry said Wednesday. The would-be suicide bomber named Abdullah and resident of Paktika province was shot and injured by Afghan National Army personnel before arr...
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KABUL (AIP): The governor of northern Sare Pull province escaped unhurt in a roadside bomb blast today (April 24) in the provincial capital, police said Tuesday. Governor Syed Iqbal Munib was on way to office when a remote controlled roadside bomb was detonated between the vehicles of governor an...
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KHOST (AIP): Police arrested five suspected Taliban in Khost and recovered mortar rounds and other ammunition from their possession yesterday (April. 23), police said Tuesday. The five suspected Taliban were detained in the Zazi Maidan district of Khost province, said Colonel Wazir Badshah, publi...
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HERAT (AIP): Afghan and foreign forces killed two Taliban and detained eight suspected people during joint operations in the western Farah province last night, border forces said Tuesday (April. 24). The operations were launched in Bakwa district in which a policeman was wounded and two Taliban w...