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KANDAHAR (AIP): Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) and ISAF secured the village of Talukan today (Dec. 22) as part of Operation Baaz Tsuka, says a press release issued by ISAF Friday. The statement said this was the third village to be secured, along with Howz-e Madad and Zangabad, without r...
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KHOST (AIP): A man was killed and two others wounded as lightning hit a house last night in Khost province, residents said Thursday (Dec. 21). The residents while giving details to Afghan Islamic Press said the incident was happened in Sabari district during heavy downpour. There was n...
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KABUL (AIP): Police recovered a cache of arms from the office of a foreign Non-governmental Organization (NGO) in Kabul today (Dec. 21), police claimed Thursday. Police, on a tip-off that a foreign NGO, COMPAS was involved in the illegal business of arms, raided the office of the NGO in the Indus...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Police arrested a government official on the orders of governor Kandahar Thursday (Dec. 21) for misusing his official position. Addressing a press Governor Kandahar, Haji Asadullah Khalid, said, " Regional government attorney Muhammad Hanif had stolen documents from the file of a m...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Afghan and ISAF forces captured 20 insurgents and killed several others in Kandahar last night, says a press release issued by ISAF late Wednesday. The statement said the arrests occurred during security manoeuvres as part of Operation Baaz Tsuka in the Panjwaee district of Kanda...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): ISAF forces launched a precision air strike against a 'known' insurgent command and logistics post in an isolated area of the Panjwayi district of Kandahar province overnight, says a press release issued by ISAF Tuesday (Dec. 19) The precision-guided munitions impacted on target,...
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KHOST (AIP): An explosion happened near a vehicle of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Khost province today (Dec. 19), police said Tuesday. The incident took place in Zambarg area of Sabryo district in Khost province today's morning, a police officer told AIP on condition of anony...
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KABUL (AIP): NATO and Afghan forces captured five suspected Taliban fighters including a Talib commander during joint operations in Zabul yesterday (Dec. 18), interior ministry said Tuesday. The operations were conducted in the Sheh-e-Safa district of Zabul in which a Taliban commander Mulla Nazi...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): A suicide bomber attacked a convoy of NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Kandahar today (Dec. 18) but there no details of the casualties, eyewitnesses said Monday. The ISAF convoy was attacked in Daman district, 15 kilometers to east of Kandahar City but Af...
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KABUL (AIP): Unidentified gunmen kidnapped five engineers in Ghazni province yesterday, interior ministry said Monday (Dec. 18). These engineers were the employees of rural extension ministry and they were on way to Ghazni from Paktika province when abducted, press office of the interior ministry...