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GHAZI (AIP): Two Taliban were killed after an attack on a district centre in Zabul province last night, an official said Saturday (Aug. 18). A group of approximately 200 Taliban attacked headquarters of Deh Chopan but police strongly retaliated as they had prior information about Taliban intentio...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): A suicide car bomber attacked a convoy of foreign security agency in Kandahar City today (Aug. 18), killing 15 and wounding 25 people, police said Saturday. The incident was happened in Bagh Pul area, western part of Kandahar City when a suicide bomber rammed his explosive laden car...
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JALALABAD (AIP): Police seized 93 kg opium and arrested a man in the Khugyani district of Ningarhar last night. Spokesman of Ningahar police, Colonel Abdul Ghafoor told Afghan Islamic Press that counter-narcotics police raided a house in Wadisar village and recovered 93 kg opium. He said the m...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Unidentified gunmen abducted four Afghan engineers in the Shah Wali Kot district of Kandahar province yesterday (Aug. 17), police said Saturday. The abducted engineers were working for Hashim Construction Company and all were Afghan nationals, said Sayyed Agha Saqib, provincial po...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban leader Mulla Muhammad Omar urged unity among Afghans on the eve of Afghanistan 88th Independence Day. In a statement issue Saturday the Taliban supreme leader said, "We are celebrating our independence day in such a situation that our country has been invaded, our houses h...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): A district chief and his three children were killed in a suicide attack in Kandahar City today (Aug. 17), police said Friday. In-charge of Zehri district, Khairuddin was standing in front of his house in Kandahar City with his five children when a man came to him and detonated him...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Afghan and Coalition forces detained seven suspected Taliban during an operation south of Kandahar City early today (Aug. 17), a coalition statement said Friday. One of the detainees is suspected of being a major Taliban improvised explosive device facilitator, the statement sai...
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HERAT (AIP): Unidentified gunmen opened fire on a vehicle in Farah province today last night, injuring two people, police said Friday (Aug. 17). Provincial police chief, Abdur Rahmand Sarjang told Afghan Islamic Press it was a wedding vehicle which was attacked five kilometers from Farah City....
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KABUL (AIP): Afghan and Coalition forces detained four suspected Taliban during an operation in Ghazni province today (Aug.17), the US-led coalition said Friday. In a statement issued by coalition forces said the operation was conducted on "credible intelligence" on a compounded occupied by suspe...
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KHOST (AIP): A policeman was killed and a district police among four others wounded during a gun battle with Taliban in Khost province today (Aug. 17), an official said Friday. A government official who wished not to be named told Afghan Islamic Press that police and Taliban clashed in the Baak d...