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JALALABAD (AIP): Three Coalition forces soldiers and one civilian interpreter died of wounds sustained from an IED blast during a combat operation in Ningarhar province Sunday.A Coalition statement issued here said that forces were engaged in combat operations near Bar Kalakney Village, Khogyani Dis...
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GHAZNI (AIP): Journalists after waiting for a long time in front of the office of the Afghan Red Crescent Society in Ghazni returned empty handed on Sunday as no information about the fresh talks between Taliban and South Korean officials could be ascertained. The security officials present there...
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KABUL (AIP): The joint declaration of the four-day Afghanistan-Pakistan Joint Peace Jirga strongly recognized on the fact that terrorism is a common threat to both countries and the war on terror should continue to be an integral part of the national policies and security strategies. The participan...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Two policemen were injured when their vehicle struck a mine in Sangin district of Helmand province on Sunday afternoon, said provincial police chief of Helmand, Mohammad Hussain Andiwal. Earlier, the Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousaf said a vehicle of Afghan National Army was b...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): No meeting took place between the Taliban leaders and South Korean officials on the issue of 21 hostages while the two sick female hostages were still in the custody of Taliban, said a spokesman for the Taliban Qari Mohammad Yousaf Ahmadi on Sunday. Ahmadi told AIP over telephone...
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HERAT (AIP): The residents of Kehsan district of western Herat province Sunday staged a protest demonstration against the killings of four children by Iranian border security forces and called for handing them over the bodies of the slain children. Yesterday (August 11) the Iranian border securit...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban Saturday (Aug. 10) said talks were smoothly continuing with South Korean delegation in Ghazni province and they hoped that it would yield positive results. "Talks between Taliban and South Korean team on the fate of hostages were held last evening which lasted for several...
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Coalition claim killing 12 suspected Taliban in south KABUL (AIP): Coalition air strike killed an estimated dozen of Taliban after an attack on combined patrol of Afghan and coalition forces in the southern Kandahar province yesterday (Aug. 10), a statement said Saturday. The statement issued by...
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KABUL (AIP): The duration of ongoing Afghanistan-Pakistan peace jirga has been extended for a day more and it is said that this decision has been taken in the wake of Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf willingness to attend the concluding session of the gathering. Reliable sources told A...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): NATO forces have arrested two Taliban militants including a commander in southern Kandahar province, NATO media office told AIP on Saturday. The two were arrested during an operation in eastern parts of Kandahar province on credible intelligence reports about the presence of Taliban...