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KABUL (AIP): Taliban on Saturday (May 19) confirmed that five Taliban were killed and eight others wounded in Kapisa clash last night. Afghan and foreign forces also suffered casualties in the clash but we do not have details, Taliban spokesman Zabihulla Mujahid told Afghan Islamic Press. "I w...
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KANDUZ (AIP): Death toll in the Kunduz suicide attack reached to eight as another German soldier and five civilians were confirmed dead in today's (May. 19) explosion. A man riding a cycle conducted carried out the attack when the German troops disembarked from their vehicle in Chai bazaar (Tea...
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JALALABAD (AIP): A roadside bomb blast killed a district police chief and his driver in the eastern Ningarhar today (May 19), police said Saturday. The roadside bomb struck the vehicle of the police chief of Acheen district, killing the police chief and his driver, said Abdul Ghafoor, spokesman...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): A policeman was wounded in a bomb explosion in Kandahar City today (May. 19), eyewitnesses said Saturday. The planted on a bicycle went off in the Khwajak Baba area of this provincial City, eyewitnesses told Afghan Islamic Press. They said there were no further details as secur...
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HERAT (AIP): Two commanders among 35 Taliban were killed and 30 others wounded in the May 17 air-strike by foreign aircraft in western Farah province, police chief said Saturday (May. 19). "The air raid was conducted after credible intelligence that a Taliban leader Mulla Abdur had arrived in the...
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JALALABAD (AIP): Heavy windstorm damaged several houses in Kunar province yesterday (May 18), police said Saturday. A bridge was destroyed while boundary walls of several houses of Afghan returnees in the Kunar Khas district were also collapsed, said Abdul Jalal Jalal, police chief of Kunar. A...
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KABUL (AIP): The interior minister made several new appointments in the ministry after the approval of the president. A press issued here on Saturday (May 19) said Abul Hadi Khalid was appointed as first deputy of the interior minister, Munir Mangal as security assistant, Najeebullah Fahim as adv...
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KHOST (AIP): Four foreign troops were wounded when their vehicle rolled down a bridge after failed suicide car attack in Paktia province today (May 19), an official said Saturday. The suicide bomber drove his explosive laden vehicle into the convoy of coalition troops in the Teera Kandao area of...
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KHOST (AIP): A clash between Taliban and foreign forces left 11 Taliban dead and one foreign soldier wounded in Paktika province last night, a spokesman said Friday. The firefight erupted in the Barmal district after Taliban attacked foreign troops, a spokesman of foreign forces told Afghan Islam...
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KABUL (AIP): Afghan and Coalition forces detained five Taliban and destroyed a cache of weapons in an operation early Friday against extremist forces in Nadir Shah Kot district of Khowst Province, coalition said today (May. 18) Credible intelligence led forces to the compound suspected of housing...