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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...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): A suicide bomber rammed his explosive laden car into a vehicle of Frontier Constabulary vehicle in the northern Swat district of North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan today (Oct. 25), killing 25 FC personnel and over 15 civilians, informed sources said Thursday. Sources to...
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KABUL (AIP): Taliban claimed Thursday they had blown up a vehicle of foreign forces in Paktia province today (Oct. 25), killing 10 troops. Coalition forces, however, termed the Taliban claim as false. Spokesman of Taliban, Zabihullah Mujahid phoned Afghan Islamic Press from an undisclosed location...
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KABUL (AIP): A soldier of NATO-led ISAF died of wounds sustained during operations in southern Afghanistan, an ISAF statement said Thursday (Oct. 25). The statement issued by ISAF would not disclose that when and in which province of the southern Afghanistan, the soldier died. "It is with gre...