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QALAT (AIP): Some unknown highwaymen fired RPG rockets at two passengers vans yesterday (Nov 6) on Kabul-Kandahar highway in Zabul province near Aman Pul area, killing at least eight passengers in one and injuring three others in the second vehicle, an official said on condition of anonymity. An off...
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QALAT (AIP): Taliban attacked a base of Afghan National Army in the Shinkai district of Zabul province last night, injuring two soldiers, an ANA commander said Wednesday (Nov. 07). A commander of Afghan National Army, Mulla Abdul Raziq told Afghan Islamic Press that the Taliban attacked the ANA b...
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KABUL (AIP): Police seized and torched huge quantity of narcotics in the Abdul Khail district of eastern Ningarhar province Nov. 4, interior ministry said Tuesday (Nov. 06). Personnel of the counter-narcotics police seized 90 kilograms of morphine, 350 kilograms of opium, 510 kilograms of banne...
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KABUL (AIP): A suicide bomber killed and wounded over 100 people including parliament members in the northern Baghlan province today (Nov. 06), police said Tuesday. A police officer of Balghlam told Afghan Islamic Press on condition of anonymity that 12 members of parliament and provincial council...
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KABUL (AIP): Taliban on Tuesday condemned suicide attack in Baghlan in which over 100 people including parliament members and school children killed and wounded. "The Baghlan explosion was not conducted by Taliban and we were not behind the explosion," Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told Afgha...
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KABUL (AIP): The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) Tuesday (Nov. 06) said Taliban were not in control of the Khak-e Sufid district center in Farah Province. "A combined Afghan Security Forces/ISAF patrol has swept through the area and has found that the Taliban militants who en...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Afghan National Police (ANP) and NATO forces detained during operation in Ghazni province last night, an official said Monday (Nov. 05). A local Taliban commander Mulla Fazlullah was also among the Taliban detained during the joint operation in the Deh Yak district, said Fazl Ahma...
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HERAT (AIP): One Indian engineer was killed while his two Indian and one Afghan colleagues were wounded in a traffic accident in the western Nimroz province last night, an official said Monday (Nov. 05). The incident was happened in the Khashrod district when a vehicle of an Indian road construct...
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HERAT (AIP): Heavy fighting is continuing in the Ghormach district of Badghis province between Taliban and combined forces, an Afghan military commander said Monday (Nov. 05). Besides Afghan troops, NATO forces is also taking part in the fighting and its aircraft bombing Taliban positions, said G...
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KABUL (AIP): Afghan National Police (ANP) and coalition forces killed 25 Taliban during a clash in Uruzgan province yesterday (Nov. 03), interior ministry said Sunday. The combined force clashed with Taliban in the Dehrawod district of Uruzgan at approximately 1:30 p.m. in which a key Taliban com...