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KANDAHAR (AIP): A roadside bomb killed four people including a policeman in the Gershk district of Helmand province today (Sept. 28), an official said Friday. A local police official who wished not to be named told Afghan Islamic Press that the landmine planted in front of Gereshk police departme...
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KABUL (AIP): Taliban on Friday (Sept. 28) claimed they had killed six Afghan police and soldiers in separate attacks against government forces in different provinces of Afghanistan. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid phoned Afghan Islamic Press from an unidentified location and said Taliban fi...
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KABUL (AIP): Afghan, coalition forces killed two suspected Taliban and detained four others in an operation conducted today (Sept. 27) in Helmand Province, a coalition statement said Thursday. The statement said intelligence sources indicated the compounds raided in the Reeg District, were prov...
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KABUL (AIP): A suicide bomber and his aide were killed in bungled suicide attack in the eastern Ningarhar province early today (Sept. 27), interior ministry said Thursday. The suicide bombers detonated their explosive laden car near the convoy of coalition forces in the Barikaab area of Batikot d...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Unidentified gunmen kidnapped two doctors of a non-governmental organization in Zabul province yesterday (Sept. 26), an official Thursday. Both the doctors working for Abne Seena, a non governmental welfare organization were carrying medicines in their vehicle from Qalat, capital...
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QALAT (AIP): Taliban attack on a check post in Zabul province last night left six Afghan police dead, a security official said Thursday. The check post in the Sangi Pul area of Shehr-e-Safa district was captured by Taliban after a clash in which six police were killed, a security officer of Zabul...
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KABUL (AIP): Unidentified gunmen abducted two foreign and two Afghan workers of International Red Cross in Wardak province yesterday (Sept. 26), informed sources said Thursday. Sources told Afghan Islamic Press that the foreign employees of the Red Cross went to Salar district to secure the relea...
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QALAT (AIP): Taliban Thursday (Sept. 27) said they had killed one of the two engineers in Zabul province. One of the two engineers of a road construction company, who were kidnapped by Taliban in the Nowrak area on Kabul-Kandahar highway on Sept. 25, was killed today, a man who disclosed his name...
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KABUL (AIP): Two failed suicide attacks resulted in the death of four attackers and a civilian today (Sept. 27) in Bati Kowt District of Nangarhar Province, a coalition statement said late Thursday night. An explosive laden car riding in by three people including the driver detonated along High...
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KABUL (AIP): An ISAF helicopter overturned while trying to land during a MEDEVAC mission in Ghormach village of Bagdhis province today (Sept. 25) around 8 p.m, an ISAF statement said late Tuesday night. The helicopter was part of a mission to recover personnel of the Afghan National Police who we...