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KANDAHAR (AIP): An Antonov-32 transport aircraft crashed at Bost Airfield in Lashkar Gah at around 11:30 a.m. local time today (Monday).A press statement issued by the coalition forces said the aircraft was on final approach when a civilian truck drove across the runway. The pilot pulled...
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HERAT (AIP): Afghan President Hamid Karzai arrived Qilla Nau , capital of Badghais province on Saturday to lay the foundation stone of hospital funded by Spain.The hospital will be constructed at a cost of 2.5 million euro by the Provincial Reconstruction Team of Spain which will be a complete...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Afghan and coalition forces arrested 16 suspected Taliban fighters in a series of operations in Zabul province last night, Afghan military officials claimed Sunday.Coalition and Afghan forces conducted a string of operations in Arghandab district of Zabul province last night after th...
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JALALABAD (AIP): Eleven armed activists of Hezb-e-Islami (Hekmatyar) join government yesterday in Kunar province, governor claim Sunday.Governor of Kunar province, Haji Asadullah Wafa told Afghan Islamic Press today that 11 people who had been working for Hezb-e-Islamic (Hekmatyar) have join governm...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): A fierce fighting is continuing in Geelan district of Ghazi province and one Afghan soldier and three Taliban fighters have been killed in the fighting so far, sources said Sunday.Heavy firefight has been continuing between Taliban and government forces in Geelan district since morni...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Four rockets were fired at Kandahar airport on Sunday but did not cause any damage, coalition forces in Kandahar disclosed.A spokesman of coalition forces in Kandahar told Afghan Islamic Press that three rockets landed at the Airport in early morning (2:00 A.M) today (Sunday) w...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban on Thursday accepted responsibility of suicide attack in Kandahar and said 16 people were killed and wounded in the attack.Taliban spokesman Qari Muhammad Yousaf told Afghan Islamic Press that a Talib suicide bomber hailing from Kandahar attack vehicles of US troops in Howz-e...
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KABUL (AIP): Five members of the Karzai cabinet failed to secure trust of the Wolesi Jirga (National Assembly) of Afghanistan here on Thursday.244 members of the Wolesi Jirga were present in the house and they used their vote to approve or disapprove any of these ministers.In the trust vote, m...
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KHOST (AIP): Police defused two landmines planted at different place in Khost province yesterday, police said Friday.A police told Afghan Islamic Press on condition and anonymity that the mine had been planted in Butkhana Mosque in Yaqoobi district of Khost province which was defused by concer...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Unidentified people slaughtered six highway policemen in Kandahar after intoxicating them last night, officials said Friday. Six policemen deputed at checkpoint on Kandahar-Herat highway in Mawaid district were intoxicated by unidentified people and were later slaughtered last night,...