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KABUL (AIP): A police commander was killed and five other policemen were wounded in a roadside bomb blast in troubled Helmand province yesterday, interior ministry said Monday (Oct. 16). The vehicle of a police commander struck a landmine as police was shifting its post from one place to another...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): A soldier of NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was wounded in a suicide car bomb attack in Kandahar today (Oct. 06), an ISAF spokesman said Monday (Oct. 16). Spokesman of ISAF in Kandahar, Maj. Morell, confirmed to Afghan Islamic Press that a suicide car bomb...
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KABUL (AIP): A minor child was killed in a roadside bomb explosion in Badakhshan yesterday, sources said Monday (Oct. 16). Informed sources told Afghan Islamic Press that a roadside bomb detonated near a vehicle Provincial Reconstruction Team in Shehr-e-Naw area of Faizaabad, capital of Badakhsha...
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KABUL (AIP): ISAF Soldiers killed four insurgents near the Korengal Outpost in the Pech District of Kunar Province last night, while conducting a combat mission as part of Operation Mountain Fury in Eastern Afghanistan, an ISAF statement said Monday (Oct. 16). A US patrol from 1st Battalion, 32nd I...
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JALALABAD (AIP): Three Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers drowned and three other injured when their vehicle fell in Kunar River, sources said on Sunday (Oct. 15). Sources said a vehicle of ANA fell in Kunar River in Speen Jomat area about 45 kilometres from Asadabad. Three Afghan soldiers drown...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): A suicide car bomber attacked a convoy of Afghan National Army in Kandahar today (Oct. 14), eyewitnesses said Saturday. The bomber detonated his explosive laden car near the ANA convoy on Kandahar-Heart highway in Zehri district of Kandahar province today (Oct. 14) in which the bo...
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KABUL (AIP): Five rockets were fired at the office of Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Kunduz province last night, sources said Saturday (Oct. 14). Sources informed AIP that the rockets were fired at PRT office in Angor Bagh of Kunduz province but there were no details of the damage. Fo...
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HERAT (AIP): Deputy Director for Rural Development Herat, Engineer Hamidullah Gillani has said that 291 uplift projects have been completed at a cost of 30 million US dollars in Herat province. Talking to Afghan Islamic Press here on Saturday (Oct. 14) he said 800 different development projected...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): The first-ever registration of Afghan citizens in Pakistan will start tomorrow (Sunday, Oct. 15) to provide eligible Afghans with official identification during their temporary stay in Pakistan, says a UNHCR press issued Saturday (Oct. 14). Only Afghans included in the 2005 census ca...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): A clash between Taliban and Afghan police left two policemen and three fighters dead in Zabul last night, police said Saturday (Oct. 14). Taliban attacked a police patrol in Shehr-e-Safa district of Zabul, killing two policemen, Police Chief of Zabul, Noor Muhammad Pakteen told Af...