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KANDAHAR (AIP): Police killed five suspected Taliban last night in Zabul province, a security official said Thursday (May 01). Police engaged a group of Taliban in Faqir village near Qalat city on prior information, killing five Taliban including a commander Mulla Abdur Raziq, said Faridullah,...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Police on Thursday (May 01) recovered 35kg heroin and weapons and arrested two people in Lashkargah, capital of Helmand province. Provincial police chief Muhammad Hussain Andiwal told Afghan Islamic Press that police raided the house of one Muhammad Daud and recovered 35 kg heroin...
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QALAT (AIP): Unidentified gunmen attacked a logistic convoy of ISAF troops last night, injuring four Afghan drivers, highway police said Wednesday. The logistic convoy was attacked in Chinaro area, Ghazni district, said Daulat Khan, commander of highway police. He told Afghan Islamic Press tha...
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KABUL (AIP): Four anti-government people and three security personnel were killed during operations in Capital Kabul today (April 30), government officials said Wednesday. The operations were launched in three different areas, Guzargah, Arzan Qemat and Tara Khail area early today and continued ti...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): A road accident left three people dead and as many wounded in Zabul province today (April 30), a security official said Wednesday. The incident was happened in Nawrak area on Kabul-Kandahar highway when a passenger bus skidded off the road, said Faridullah, security chief of Zab...
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KABUL (AIP): A soldier of NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was killed and four more wounded today (April 30) in Logar province, ISAF said Wednesday. The statement said the soldier were on patrol when the incident was happened. The wounded soldiers were taken to a medical facil...
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JALALABAD (AIP): A huge explosion was happened inside headquarters of Khugyani district, Ningarhar province, eyewitnesses said Tuesday. Eyewitnesses told Afghan Islamic Press that firing of small weapons was heard from the building of the district centre. Though there were no accurate reports...
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JALALABAD (AIP): At least 10 people including a district police chief were killed and several others including a foreign journalist were wounded in an explosion in Khugyani district of eastern Ningarhar province today (April 29), sources said Tuesday. "Four dead bodies and 15 injured have been b...
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KABUL (AIP): One ISAF soldier was killed and four others wounded in a clash with Taliban in southern Afghanistan yesterday (April 27), an ISAF statement said Monday. The statement said the ISAF troops were on a patrol when engaged by Taliban. It said the wounded soldiers were transported to...
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KABUL (AIP):UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned attack on Afghan President Hamid Karzai during a victory parade in the war-torn nation's capital Kabul. "The attack against the legitimate institutions of the Afghan state and the Afghan people is unacceptable," Mr. Ban said in a sta...