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KABUL (AIP): Unidentified gunmen kidnapped a district chief in Logar province last night, security sources said Tuesday (Aug. 21). District chief Khawar, Mirza Muhammad was picked up after an attack on his house, sources told Afghan Islamic Press. The sources added that the attackers also torc...
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KABUL (AIP): A helicopter of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) made emergency landing in Kabul today (Aug. 21), ISAF office said Tuesday. The helicopter landed in Khak-e-Jabar, area western Kabul. "We did have a ISAF helicopter had an emergency landing this morning," the ISAF Pres...
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KABUL (AIP): Afghan police arrested a suspected local Taliban commander in Ghazni province yesterday, a statement said Tuesday (Aug. 21). The statement issued by the interior ministry said the Taliban commander Mulla Naser was detained in the Qara Bagh district at approximately 4:00 p.m. local time....
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KHOST (AIP): Afghan and foreign forces would soon launch Operation Khyber in three province of Afghanistan, an official said Tuesday (Aug. 21). Public Relation Officer of 203rd Thunder Corps, Colonel Gul Muhammad told Afghan Islamic Press that the decision was taken during a meeting held at the b...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban claimed to have killed two policemen including a commander when they attacked a police checkpost on Kandahar highway on Monday (August 20). A Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousaf Ahmadi told AIP over phone that Taliban fighters attacked the checkpost in Liwani Bazaar of...
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KABUL (AIP): A female German hostage was freed from a Kabul neighborhood by Afghan police with the help of other security forces and had arrested a group of four kidnappers early Monday, an official told AIP on Monday (August 20). The source said that police and other Afghan security forces had laun...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): A fierce fighting between police and Taliban militants was continuing since last night (Aug 19) in Sangin district of Helmand province but no report about the casualties could be ascertained. A resident of Sangin told AIP on Monday (August 20) that a fierce fighting between Talib...
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ZABUL (AIP): A USPI convey carrying logistics was came under attack by armed Taliban on Kabul-Kandahar highway near Qalat but no one was killed or injured in the ambush, said highway police official Ghulam Jilani Khan on Sunday. He said that a vehicle was destroyed in the attack, adding the security...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Armed Taliban attacked the centre of Sangin district in Helmand province last night, sparking a three hours gunbattle with foreign troops and Afghan police, said provincial police chief of Helmand Muhammad Hussain Andiwal on Sunday. Andiwal claimed that Taliban fighters were forc...
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KABUL (AIP): The kidnapers of a German woman have demanded ransom money for her release and in this connection they had contacted German Embassy in Kabul, reliable sources confided AIP on Sunday (Aug 19). The woman was abducted from a restaurant in Karte Char area of Kabul City, who said to be a he...