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KANDAHAR (AIP): Afghan National Army and Coalition forces killed ten Taliban fighters and injured five others during a joint operation in Kandahar province Saturday afternoon (Oct 27), police said Sunday. The operation was conducted in Khak Shereen area of Shah Wali Kot district. A Coalition...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Five police men, who were protecting an Indian road construction company in western Afghanistan, were killed in a Taliban attack Saturday afternoon, officials said Sunday (October 28). The incident took place in the area between the center of Nimroz province, Zaranj and Dilara...
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KABUL (AIP): Bagram Airfield in Kabul was rocketed last night (Oct 27), but there were no casualties to Coalition forces as the rockets detonated on a remote portion of the airfield, said the press office of Coalition forces on Sunday. Earlier, the Taliban claimed to have fired rockets at Bgram a...
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KABUL (AIP): Afghan president Hamid Karzai administered polio drops to a child in Kabul to formally launch the second phase of anti-polio campaign in Afghanistan on Sunday. Information deportment in a press release issued here said that the drive would continue for three days across the country...
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KHOST (AIP): A suicide bomber wearing army uniform blew himself up at an Afghan National Army (ANA) base near Pakistan border in Paktika province, killing five including four soldiers, an official said Saturday. Paktika governor Mohammad Akram Khpalwak told AIP that today (Saturday) about 10am (...
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HERAT (AIP): A purported Taliban spokesman Qari Yousaf Ahamdi has claimed that thirty police officials of a check post in Dilaram district in Farah province have surrendered their arms and have joined the Taliban forces. However, when this scribe contacted the commander of the check-post, Genera...
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MAZAR SHARIF (AIP): Head of Char Bolak district Shura of northern Afghanistans Balkh province Haji Behram Khan was shot dead by two unknown armed men on a motorbike on Saturday (Oct 27), police said. Haji Behram Khan was riding in his car alongwith other friends in Char Bolak district when two u...
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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...