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KHOST (AIP): Security forces detained four suspects during separate operations in Paktika province last night, officials said Friday (Jan. 30). Security conducted operation in Sarobi district of Paktika province last night in which two suspicious persons were held with several weapons and a wirel...
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JALALABAD (AIP): Enraged residents took out a demonstration against the injuring of three people by foreign forces in Watta Pur district of Kaunar province last night. Foreign forces fired artillery rounds on Kata Kala village of Watta Pur district, Kunar province in which two children and a woma...
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JALALABAD (AIP): A soldier of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was wounded in an attack in eastern Afghanistan today (Jan. 29), ISAF said Thursday. Earlier, a local Taliban commander who disclosed his name as Qari Dawat, told AIP on phone that Taliban killed 12 foreign troops during...
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HERAT (AIP): A 15-bed hospital constructed by Iranian Red Crescent was opened in the western Nimroz province today (Jan. 29), governor said Thursday. Ghulam Dastagir Azad, governor of Nimroz province told Afghan Islamic Press that work on the construction of the hospital was started four months b...
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HERAT (AIP): Unidentified gunmen abducted an Iran national in the western Herat province today (Jan. 28), police said Wednesday. The Iran national who was driver was abducted Ghoryan district along with his vehicle but his vehicle was later found in the same district, said Dilawar Shah Dilawar, s...
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KABUL (AIP): Afghan security personnel seized one tons of explosive materials in Torkham area of the eastern Ningarhar province yesterday (Jan. 27), interior ministry said Wednesday. A statement issued by the interior ministry said the explosive material had been concealed in 20 bags. It sa...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): A military court awarded 17 years jail term each to two policemen Wednesday (Jan. 28) after founding them guilty for raping a child in the southern Helmand province. The policemen, Dad Muhammad and Hamid had raped a child six months, Muhammad Daud Ahmadi, spokesman of governor Hel...
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KABUL (AIP): Fresh foreign troops have arrived in Logar and Maidan Wardak provinces of Afghanistan today (Jan 27), ISAF said Tuesday. A statement issued by ISAF press office in Kabul said the newly-arrived soldiers would maintain security in the said provinces under NATO command. It further sa...
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JALALABAD (AIP): A roadside bomb killed two border police and wounded four more in eastern Kunar province yesterday (Jan. 26), a commander said Tuesday. Muhammad Zaman Mamozai, commander of 1st border force in eastern zone, told Afghan Islamic Press that the incident was happened in Sonak area of...
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KABUL (AIP): Two ISAF soldiers were killed today (Jan. 27) in southern Afghanistan, ISAF said Tuesday. ISAF would not disclose nationality of the deceased, cause of their dead and exact location of the incident. But Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesman of Taliban, earlier told Afghan Islamic Press th...