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KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban claimed to have captured two security posts having strategic importance in Faryab province on Tuesday (Dec 2). Taliban spokesman Qari Muhammad Yousaf Ahmadi told AIP from an unknown place that Taliban have taken control of a security post in Almar district, Faryab province...
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HERAT (AIP): Unidentified gunmen shot and wounded a tribal elder and killed his two bodyguards in the western Herat province today (Dec. 03), police said Wednesday. The gunmen opened fire on the vehicle of Hafizullah Marwa, a tribal elder in Gholdarwaz area of Herat city, killing his two bodyguar...
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KHOST (AIP): Afghan security forces 16 bags of drugs and over 300 bottles of liquor in different provinces, interior ministry said Tuesday (Dec. 02). The interior ministry in a statement said 16 bags of narcotics being smuggled to Iran were recovered by security forces in Zaranj, capital of Nimro...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): Unidentified gunmen torched 12 heavy vehicles, supplying goods to foreign forces in Afghanistan, in Peshawar, Pakistan last night, security sources said Monday. The gunmen poured petrol on 12 containers and a crane parked at a stand in Akhund Muhammad Landi on Ring Road Peshawar and...
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KABUL (AIP): Afghan Minster for Revenue Anwar ul Haq Ahadi has tendered his resignation during the cabinet meeting in Kabul today (Dec. 01) after top officials demanded millions of dollars to be paid for fuel of power generators, sources said Monday. Informed sources told Afghan Islamic Press the...
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KABUL (AIP): Jamalu Din Baddar has been appointed as Noristan governor, official sources said to AIP on Saturday (Nov 29). Sources told AIP that on the directives of President Hamid Karzai, Jamalu Din was appointed as new governor of Noristan province. Jamalu Din belongs to Barigmatal and has...
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KABUL (AIP): Taliban on Saturday (Nov. 29) claimed they had killed eight foreign troops during an attack on their convoy in Wardak province last night. Taliban attacked the convoy of foreign forces on Kabul-Kandahar highway in Salar area of Wardak province, killing eight foreign troops and destro...
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GHAZNI (AIP): Two policemen were injured in a mine attack in Raseedan district, Peerkay area, Ghazni province on Friday (Nov 28). Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid while talking to AIP on phone claimed that Taliban have killed six police cops in the mine attack on the police vehicle. Taliba...
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KHOST (AIP): Unidentified gunmen killed two brothers of the secretary of Khost province council in the vicinity of Khost city today (Nov. 28), an elected representative said Friday. Ustad Tajali, head of Khost provincial council told Afghan Islamic Press that the brothers of Muhammad Nawab, secre...
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KABUL (AIP): A soldier of NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was killed in roadside bomb explosion in southern Afghanistan today (Nov. 27), ISAF said Thursday. The soldier died when a patrol struck an Improvised Explosive Device (IED), an ISAF statement said without disclosi...