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KANDAHAR (AIP): Five people were killed and four others wounded during separate attacks in the southern Helmand province yesterday (Jan. 06), police said Monday. A roadside bomb struck a police vehicle in the Nad Ali district, killing one police officer, an intelligence employ and two civilians,...
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KABUL (AIP): One Coalition soldier was killed and two others wounded in a roadside bomb explosion the Kot District of eastern Nangarhar Province today (Jan. 07), a coalition statement said late Monday. "The servicemembers were responding to an IED discovered by Afghan National Security Forces e...
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HERAT (AIP): As many as 50 Afghan and Iranian workers, working on the construction of a rail track from Iran to Afghanistan, are stranded in the Ghoryan district of Heart province due to heavy snowfall and downpours, an official said Monday (Jan. 07). All kind of road links were cutoff with the A...
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KABUL (AIP): An Afghan was detained on suspicion of planting a mine in southern Kandahar province Saturday (Jan 5) by Afghan National Army (ANA) troops, said a press statement released by Afghan Defense Ministry on Sunday. The statement said a man was apprehended for allegedly planting a mine in Hoo...
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HERAT (AIP): The Afghan police clashed with alleged kidnappers of an Afghan doctor in western Herat province, killing two of the kidnappers and detaining seven more, police said Sunday. Police chief of southwestern zone, General Ikramuddin Yawar, giving details said the police after receiving in...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): A man was killed when his car struck a mine planted under a small bridge in southern Helmand province today morning, police said Sunday. A police official Mohammad Hussain Andiwal told AIP that the incident took place in Greshak district of Helmand province today morning (Jan 6)....
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KABUL (AIP): A former Taliban commander Saturday (Jan. 05) claimed he escaped from the lockup of intelligence department in Kabul yesterday by paying bribe. While talking to Afghan Islamic Press, Mulla Naqibullah who claimed to be a former Taliban commander, said "I was in the lockup of intellige...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Director of Helmand health department, Dr. Inayatullah Saturday rejected reports of the outbreak of measles disease in the province. There were reports that approximately 30 children were killed by the outbreak of measles or such like other disease in the Musa Qala district of Helman...
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KABUL (AIP): A suspected kidnapper and an alleged thief was rounded up by anti-crimes police personnel in Kabul, police said Saturday (Jan. 05). A statement issued by the office of anti-crimes police said the suspected kidnapper, Aziz Ahmad was detained in the 3rd police zone of Kabul City yester...
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KHOST (AIP): Afghan officials distributed aid goods among 550 families who migrated to Paktia province from the Kurram Agency, a tribal district of Pakistan, due to bloody sectarian clashes. Governor of Paktia province, Juma Khan Hamdarad told Afghan Islamic Press that aid goods including five to...