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Date 13-8-08 KABUL (AIP): A British soldier was shot dead in the restive southern Helmand province on Friday (Sep 12) during a firefight with opposition groups, the Ministry of Defence in London confirmed Saturday, media reports said. "It is with great sadness that the Ministry of Defence (Mo...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Unidentified gunmen shot dead a government officer in Kandahar last night, an official said Friday. Nazir Muhammad Agha, deputy director of Kandahar electricity department was shot dead in Kandahar city when he was returning home after offering evening prayers in the mosque, said...
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GHAZNI (AIP): Five people including two policemen were wounded in a roadside bomb explosion in Ghazni province earlier today (Sept. 11), eyewitness said Thursday. Eyewitnesses told Afghan Islamic Press that the roadside bomb exploded on a police vehicle on Kabul-Kandahar highway in the vicinity o...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Several people were feared killed and wounded in a suicide attack on a vehicle of a private security company in Kandahar today (Sept. 11), police and eyewitnesses said Thursday. The suicide bomber attacked the vehicle of US Protection and Investigations (USPI), a private US securi...
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KHOST (AIP): Police foiled a sabotage bid defusing a bomb in Gardez, capital of Paktia province yesterday (Sept. 10). The bomb had been planted in a bicycle parked in military colony in the provincial capital which was found and defused by a police patrol. The bomb might be aimed to disrupt a...
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KABUL (AIP): One soldier each of US-led coalition and NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed in eastern Afghanistan today (Sept. 11), ISAF, coalition said in separate statement Thursday. The coalition soldier was killed while conducting combat operations, the coalitio...
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HERAT (AIP) A suicide bomber killed one police and a civilian in the western Nimroz province today (Sept. 11), governor said Thursday. The bomber blew up himself closed to a police vehicle in the Khashrod district centre, killing a policeman in the vehicle and a civilian, said Ghulam Dastagir Aza...
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HERAT (AIP): Taliban fired four rockets at a base of foreign troops in Farah province last night, causing no damage, ISAF, Taliban said Thursday. Qari Muhammad Yousaf Ahmadi, spokesman of Taliban, phoned Afghan Islamic Press and said Taliban fired four rockets at a base of foreign troops in Far...
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GHAZNI (AIP): Taliban attacked a logistic convoy in Ghazni province today (Sept. 10), killing a driver of a vehicles, eyewitnesses said Wednesday. The logistic convoy of foreign forces was attacked in Chardewal area in which one vehicle was also torched, an eyewitness told Afghan Islamic Press....
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QALAT (AIP): Four rockets were fired at a district headquarter in Zabul province last night, causing loss of property to civilians, an official said Wednesday. Anti-government elements fired the rockets on the district centre from an unknown location which hit civilian houses, said Muhammad Zarif, d...