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KANDAHAR (AIP): Four Taliban were reportedly killed and two arrested during operation jointly conducted by NATO and Afghan forces in Helmand province yesterday (March. 07), security sources said Wednesday. Operation Achilles is continuing in the southern Helmand and four anti-government elements...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): A soldier of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was killed today (March. 06) in Southern Afghanistan during combat operations, an ISAF statement said Tuesday. "In accordance with NATO policy, ISAF does not release a casualty's nationality prior to the rele...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban on Tuesday (March. 06) said the Briton who held by Taliban was a spy and working for an Italian newspaper. Giving more details about the kidnapped foreigner, spokesman of Taliban fighters, Qari Muhammad Yousaf said, "His name is Dan Nichol and a British national." The B...
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JALALABAD (AIP): The students of Ningarhar University vowed to hold a demonstration against the reported killing of civilians in US troops' fire after talks between Ningarhar Shura and students failed last night, an official said Tuesday (March. 06). Talking to Afghan Islamic Press Deputy Chi...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Three children were killed and as many wounded when a mortar shell they were playing with exploded in Zabul province today (March. 06), a security official said Tuesday. The children were playing with the mortar shell in the Seuri district of Zabul province when it went off, killi...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Baitullah Mehsud of Waziristan agency of Pakistan has entered into the southern Helmand province of Afghanistan along with other fighters for carrying out terrorist activities, governor said Tuesday (March 06). "In a recent attacked he slaughtered eleven people in a village on cha...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Two police were killed and eight civilians were wounded in a bomb explosion at a fair in Helmand province today (March. 06), eyewitnesses said Tuesday. The fair is held twice in a week in Marja district and it was on its peak today when the explosion took place, an eyewitness told...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): A policeman was killed as Taliban clashed with police in Helmand province early today (March. 05), governor said Monday. The firefight continued till 9:30 a.m. after Taliban attacked a check post at Nowzad bus stand in the northern part of Greshek district of Helmand province, sai...
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JALALABAD (AIP): Pneumonia, diarrhea and several other diseases on the rise in the northern Badakhshan province and have killed 40 children and six women during the last one and half month, official said Sunday (March 4). "During the last one and a half month about 40 children between the age...
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HERAT (AIP): A bicycle bomb killed two civilians and wounded six others when it detonated moments after the passing of foreign troops convoy in Herat City today (March. 3), security officials said Saturday. It was a remote controlled bomb planted in bicycle to target foreign troops but the foreig...