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KHOST (AIP): Taliban on Saturday (May 31) claimed they had captured a district chief in Ghazni province but local officials rejected Taliban's claim. Spokesman of Taliban, Zabihullah Mujahid, phoned Afghan Islamic Press from an undisclosed location and said, "Taliban seized the in-charge of Gomal...
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KABUL (AIP): Afghan and Coalition forces killed six suspected Taliban and detained four others during an operation in the eastern Ningarhar province early today (May 30), the US-led coalition said Wednesday. The firefight erupted in an operation in the mountains west of Jalalabad City after combi...
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HERAT (AIP): At least 13 suspected Taliban were killed and as many wounded in two separate clashes in the western Ghor and Farah provinces of Afghanistan, police claimed Wednesday (May 30). Police conducted operation last night against a group of around 30 Taliban who were planning to attack Dash...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Two separate roadside bomb blast left five police dead and two wounded in the southern Uruzgan and Helmand provinces of Afghanistan, police said Wednesday (May 30). A remote control landmine struck a police between Dehrawod and Tarin Kot, capital of Uruzgan province today's mornin...
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MAZAR-E-SHARIF (AIP): Protest against Governor Jowzjan province continues as people rallied in the provincial capital Shebarghan on the third day (Wednesday May 30). Several hundreds of supporters of General Dostam gathered in Bakhti Park, Shebarghan today's morning and were chanting slogans agai...
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KABUL (AIP): Taliban's supreme leader Mulla Muhammad Omar has proposed a neutral commission consisting of Red Cross officials, independent journalists and Afghan elders on the issue of civilian casualties in the ongoing war in Afghanistan. In a statement received by Afghan Islamic Press via email...
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JALALABAD (AIP): Four labourers were injured in Taliban attack on a road construction workers in the eastern Kunar province last night, eyewitnesses said Wednesday (May 30). The incident was happened in the Marawara district, in which two Taliban were also killed when police engaged the attackers...
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KABUL (AIP): A female member of parliament escaped unhurt in a roadside bomb blast in Parwan province today (May 30), sources said Wednesday. Samia Sadaat, female member of Wolesi Jirga (Lower house of parliament) from Parwan, was passing the Charikar bazaar when a remote controlled landmine expl...
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KABUL (AIP): Police foiled a sabotage bid and detained a would-be suicide bomber in capital Kabul today's noon (May 30), interior ministry said Wednesday. The would-be suicide bomber who had tied a strap of explosive materials around his body and wanted to blow himself up in the middle of the baz...
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KABUL (AIP): The World Bank approved a US$133.8 million package of grant assistance to Afghanistan May 29, a press release said Wednesday (May 30). Of the 133.8 million package grant assistance, US$80 million will deepen and sustain the reforms underway in the areas of public administration and f...