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HERAT (AIP): Avalanche and flash floods killed at least 16 people in the western Ghor and Badgis provinces last night, deputy governor said Monday (March. 19). An avalanche hit Janda village of Chaghcharan, capital of Ghor province during heavy rainstorm last night, said Karamuddin Raza Zada, dep...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): A police official was killed in a roadside bomb blast in Kandahar province today (March. 19), a security official said Monday. The head of police crimes branch of Pajwayee district was traveling in his vehicle when the vehicle was struck by a landmine, said security incharge of Ka...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban on Monday (March. 19) said they had released the Italian journalist Daniele Mastrogiacomo after the goverment freed three detained Taliban. Spokesman of Taliban Zabihullah Mujahid told Afghan Islamic Press the three former Taliban fighters including two former spok...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban on Monday (March. 19) claimed responsibility of suicide attack on US Embassy vehicles convoy in Kabul and said the US ambassador was the target. The attack was carried out by a Talib Asadullah, resident of Khost province, destroying two vehicles and causing huge casualtie...
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HERAT (AIP): Three fighters including a commander were killed and as many wounded during clashes with Afghan police in Farah province last night, police said Monday (March. 19). A group of around 50 armed fighters attacked five check posts in Khurma, Farah Rod and Bala Balook on Kandahar-Herat hi...
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KHOST (AIP): Taliban killed an Afghan on charges of spying for in Khost province today (March. 19), a security official said Monday. One, Raees, who was an ex-policeman and had also performed duty with coalition forces on security post, was shot dead by Taliban in Maktab bazaar of Sabri district...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): A 14-year-ol boy was killed and three other people were wounded as a suicide bomber blew himself up near a NATO convoy in Kandahar province today (March. 17), eyewitnesses said Saturday. The suicide bomber attacked the NATO convoy in Howz-e-Madad area of Zehri on Kandahar-Herat hig...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): An Afghan child was killed and four other people including one ISAF soldier was wounded in a car bomb explosion in Kandahar today (March. 17), an ISAF statement said Saturday. The vehicle, parked by the side of the road, exploded next to an ISAF convoy heading east on Highway 1 nea...
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KHOST (AIP): Unidentified gunmen torched a vehicle supplying food goods to foreign troops and kidnapped the driver of another in Paktia province today (March. 17), police said Saturday. The gunmen intercepted two containers in the Zarmat district of Paktia province at approximately 9:00 a.m. and...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Five volunteer police were killed and as many missing when the troops of NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) opened firing on a check post in Helmand province last night, a security officer said Friday (March. 16). The firing on volunteer police check post in...