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KANDAHAR (AIP): A suicide car bomber killed three workers of United Nation Assistance Mission for Afghanistan (UNAMA) in the southern Kandahar province today (Sept. 14), an official said Sunday. The suicide bomber riding in a Corolla car crashed his vehicle into two vehicles of UNAMA in front of...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): A roadside bomb killed a deputy district chief in Zabul province today (Sept. 14), sources said Sunday. Niamatullah, deputy chief of Shehr-e-Safa district was killed after the vehicle he was traveling struck a mine on Kabul-Kandahar highway, informed sources told Afghan Islamic Pr...
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GHAZNI (AIP): A mortar shell explosion left six children dead and 12 more wounded in Ghazni province today (Sept. 14), an official said Sunday. The children were playing with mortar shell after founding it in the field in Sarfaraz Qala area Andar district, said Abdur Rahim Bessiwal, district chie...
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KHOST (AIP): Hezb-e-Islami Gulbadin Hekmatyar Sunday (Sept. 14) claimed they have captured Charbaran district of Paktika province last night. Waliullah, spokesman of Hezb-e-Islami phoned Afghan Islamic Press and said their fighters attacked the headquarters of Charbaran district and captured it a...
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KABUL (AIP): Logar province Governor Abdullah Wardag was killed Saturday (Sep 13) when a roadside bomb hit his car, Kabul Police Chief General Muhammad Ayub Salangi told journalists. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid claimed the responsibility of the attack and said that they had killed the gove...
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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...