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KANDAHAR (AIP): At least eight Taliban including their two key commanders were killed during two separate clashes with police in Zarhi district of Kandahar province on Friday afternoon (Oct 26), police said Saturday. Armed Taliban were setting to ambush police patrol in Polchakan area in Zarhi di...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Three detained Pakistani nationals, who said to be mine making exports, were showed to media in Kandahar city by the intelligence chief of Kandahar province, Abdul Qayyum on Saturday evening. Qayyum told media persons that the three Pakistani were residents of Peshawar, capital o...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): At least six Taliban militants were killed in a Coalition airstrike in mountainous region of Dychopan district in Zabul province on Thursday (Oct 25), said district chief Fazal Bari on Friday. The Coalition planes bombed centers of Taliban in mountains of district Dychopan, which...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban claimed to have shot down a helicopter in Urzgan province on Thursday (Oct 25). A purported Taliban spokesman, Qari Mohammad Yousaf Ahmadi told AIP over phone from an undisclosed location that they hit a helicopter in which seven people on board were perished near the cent...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): US-led coalition planes bombed the hideouts of Taliban militants in Dychopan district in Zabul province, killing at least 18 Taliban fighters on Friday (Oct 26), an official said. The Taliban were planning attack on security forces but the coalition forces resorted to pre-emptive...
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KUNAR (AIP): Two ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) soldiers were killed and three others were wounded during a firefight with insurgent forces in Kunar province on Thursday, said a press release issued here on Friday. Participating in Operation De Rock Bark Kooch, a combined Afghan...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): A series of mine blasts killed at least two civilians and injured several others following a mine hit a convey of foreign troops between Panjwai district and Kandahar city area, eyewitnesses told AIP on Friday. They said after the blast, the foreign troops cordoned off the area an...
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GHAZNI (AIP): At least two police men were killed when the Taliban militants ambushed their patrol at Gilan district in Ghazni province on Friday, police said. Provincial police chief of Ghazni province, General Ali Shah Ahmadzai told AIP that the incident took place around 12 noon today (Frida...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Two people were arrested with five rockets in Kandahar city yesterday (Oct. 24), police claimed Thursday. The rockets were recovered from a passenger vehicle in western area of Kandahar , said Sayyed Agha Saqib, provincial police chief. He told Afghan Islamic Press that parts o...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Four police were killed and two others wounded during a gunbattle with Taliban in the southern Kandahar province last night, an official said Thursday (Oct. 25). The clash erupted in the jurisdiction of Zehir district after Taliban attack police on the night between 24 and 25th O...