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KANDAHAR (AIP): Four police officials were killed when armed Taliban militants attacked a security check post on the outskirts of Ghazni City, in Ghazni province, police said Monday. An official Mohammad Zaman told AIP that last night in Qadam Qala area, north of Ghazni city, the Taliban attacke...
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HERAT (AIP): More than 51 Taliban militants including 11 commanders have been killed to cleanse the Gulistan district of Herat province of the Taliban, who seized the district headquarters about 13 days ago, during the last three days operation, said General Jalandar Shah Behnam, an Afghan National...
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KABUL (AIP): At least two persons were killed and five others were wounded when two families in Nehar Siraj district in Helmand province, exchanged fire over a water dispute, police said today (Sunday). A security official in Helmand, Faqir Khan told AIP that the clashes erupted following a dispu...
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KABUL (AIP): A suicide bomber on foot, targeting Afghan National Army troops, who were busy in distributing relief goods among destitute near Greshak Bazaar in Helmand province, detonated the explosive strapped to his body at 10am (Afghanistan time), injuring five civilians including children and el...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Two unknown gunmen, riding a motorbike, shot dead a tribal elder and inured three children, who were playing nearby, in Qarah Bagh district in Ghazni province, officials said today (Sunday). Haji Mohammad Yousaf, a tribal elder, was shot dead by some unknown assailants, who were...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): At least two highway police men were killed and one went missing after a group of armed Taliban ambushed the vehicle they were traveling in near Qalat City, capital of Zabul province yesterday (Nov 10), an official said today (Sunday). Rejecting the Taliban claim of killing five...
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HERAT (AIP): About 1583 kilograms of drugs of different kinds including charas, opium and heroin were set ablaze in the historic city of Herat, Capital of Herat province today (Sunday), police official said. These amounts of narcotics were seized during the last two months by the law enforcing a...
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HERAT (AIP): Afghan security forces backed by foreign troops and NATO air support launched a massive attack at Gulistan district in Farah province to expel the Taliban fighters, who seized the district ten days ago, killing 20 Taliban and detaining 20 more, police said Friday (Nov 9). After a fie...
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KANDOZ (AIP): A suicide car bomber injured an intelligence officer and a passerby in northern Kandoz province, official said Saturday (Nov 10). Giving details about the incident, governor of Kandoz Haji Mohammad Omar told AIP that an explosive laden vehicle was intercepted on Khanabad-Kandoz road b...
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QALAT (AIP): Taliban clashed with Afghan National Army (ANA) troops in Zabul province today's morning (Nov. 10), a military commander said Saturday. The clashed took place on Kabul-Kandahar highway in Spina Ghbarga area after Taliban attacked ANA troops, said Muhammad Aslam, an ANA commander in Z...