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KHOST (AIP): A roadside bomb blast injured a doctor when his vehicle hit it in Khost city on Sunday (September 23), officials said. Giving details about the incident, a public relations officer for district Khost police, Wazir Badshah told AIP that vehicle of the doctor Bashir hit a roadside bom...
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JALALABAD (AIP): Work on the construction of 40 kilometers long road started in the eastern Ningarhar province today (Sept. 21). In this connection a ceremony was held in the Hisar Shahi desert which was attended by PRT and Afghan officials. The road would be constructed a cost of 1.5 million...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Two Taliban were killed and four other wounded during a clash with combined forces in the central Ghazni province last night, an Afghan official claimed Saturday (Sept. 22). The clash erupted when Afghan and foreign forces conducting operation in the Naurozkhail area of Deh Yak di...
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JALALABAD (AIP): Floods caused by heavy rains hit different areas of the eastern Ningarhar province last night, causing loss of lives and property. Head of Red Crescent Ningarhar, Muhammad Iaqbal while giving details to Afghan Islamic Press that heavy flood struck Khewa district. He said bodi...
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KUNAR (AIP): Four security men were mistakenly killed in an air-strike by Coalition forces, who were searching for two kidnapped guards of a local road construction company in Sarkano Ghrona area in Kunar province, official said on Saturday. A spokesman for the governor of Kunar province told AIP...
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KABUL (AIP): Two ISAF soldiers were killed in southern Afghanistan when the vehicle they were travelling in was involved in an accident today (Sept. 20), an ISAF statement said late Thursday night. The statement said no hostile forces were involved in the incident. "Our thoughts are with the...
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KABUL (AIP): More than three dozen Taliban were killed in a 14-hour battle in the Uruzgan province yesterday (Sept. 19), a coalition statement said late Thursday. Afghan National Army and Coalition forces were conducting a combat patrol near Kakrak village, 4 kilometers (2.4 miles) northeast of D...
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KABUL (AIP): A number of civilian were killed in ISAF air strike in Gereshk district of Helmand province yesterday (Sept. 19), an ISAF statement said Thursday. The statement said ISAF forces are currently conducting an Operation Palk Wahel in the Upper Gereshk against Taliban. Taliban attack...
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KABUL (AIP): Afghan and Coalition forces routed several anti-coalition elements and destroyed their equipment in an operation early today (Sept. 21) in the Dih Yak district of Ghazni province, a coalition statement said Friday. The combined force proceeded to compounds where Taliban were report...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): Veteran Pakhtun nationalist and central leader of Awami National Party (ANP), Afzal Khan Lala, was injured and two people were killed as unidentified gunmen attacked them in Matta, Swat, NWFP today (Sept. 21). Afzal Khan Lala was returning after offering Fateha when armed assailan...