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KABUL (AIP): Local commanders among 10 Taliban were killed and two others wounded during clashes with Afghan forces in Kandahar yesterday (Aug. 01), an interior ministry statement said Wednesday. The clashes erupted at 9:12 a.m. (local time) when Taliban attacked security posts in Akar Khail and...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban said Tuesday the Afghan government did not contact them after the killing of South Korean hostage and warned to kill all the hostages if their captured men were not freed. A purported Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousaf Ahmadi told AIP that the Afghan government has not...
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KABUL (AIP): Taliban attacked a convoy in Zabul province yesterday (July 29), killing 11 workers of a private company, interior ministry said Monday (July 30). The convoy consisting of 16 vehicles of a private company was attacked by "enemy of peace and security" in the Shah Hussain Khail area of...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban on Monday said the deadline for Korean hostages has been extended to 4:00 p.m. (Afghanistan time). "The deadline has been extended on the repeated requests of government team members Abdus Salam Rocketi, Mehmood Gillani and Khyal Muhammad Hussaini," Taliban spokesman Qari Mu...
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HERAT (AIP): Taliban captured four police after an attack on a checkpoint in Badghis province last night, border police said Monday (July 30). Taliban attacked the Amang Security Post between Kadas and Ghormach district in Badhis province and captured the post, said General Rahmatullah Raufi, com...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Police detained nine suspected Taliban in the Daman district of Kandahar yesterday (July 29), a police officer said Monday. The nine Taliban were held in the Daman district when they were shifting their injured colleagues to Pakistan, said Abdul Bari, chief of anti-terrorism polic...
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GHAZNI (AIP): Unidentified gunmen shot dead three civilians in the Shahjoyee district of Zabul province last night, an official said Monday (July 30). The gunmen dressed in police uniform entered some house in the Khaki village of Shahjoy district and killed three people, said Gulab Shah Ali Khai...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Afghan Minister for Rural Development, Ihsanullah Zia, Monday (July 30) signed 72 uplift projects with local companies in Kandahar. Addressing a ceremony held in this connection, the minister said that of 72 uplift projects 63 would be launched in Kandahar while seven would be sta...
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KABUL (AIP): One ISAF soldier was killed and three were wounded in southern Afghanistan during a security operation against a Taliban group, an ISAF statement said Monday (July). "ISAF mourns the loss of this brave soldier," said Lt. Col. Claudia Foss, ISAF spokesperson. The Taliban group was...
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KABUL (AIP): At least 28 suspected armed militants were killed during ongoing operations in southern Afghanistan, said a press release issued by Afghan interior ministry on July 28, 2007. Four Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers were also killed during the clashes, the release added. The operatio...