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JALALABAD (AIP): At least one person was killed and 18 others were inured in a road accident in Khogiano district of Ningarhar province on Monday (Oct 15), a resident told AIP over phone. He said the incident took place near the bazaar of Khogiano center Kaga when two motor cars collided head-on....
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HERAT (AIP): A Talib died when a mine he was placing at a roadside exploded in Balabalock district of Farah province last night, police said on Monday. Provincial police chief of Farah province General Abdur Rehman told AIP that the mine killed one Talib and injured others. He added the Taliban...
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KUNAR (AIP): A shell fired from unknown place hit a US helicopter in Ghaziabad area in Kunar province but caused no casualty, coalition spokesman for eastern Afghanistan Eng Rahmanullah told AIP on Monday (Oct 15). He said the helicopter after hitting by a shell landed safely in Nari area. However,...
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KABUL (AIP): Four of a family were killed in Chora district in Aurazgan province when suicide vest wearing by a boy in family detonated, said a press release issued by interior ministry on Monday (Oct 15). The release said that the boy was a student in a Madrasa in Pakistan, who just returned home a...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): At least six people were killed and several others including police were wounded in a suicide attack in the southern Kandahar province late today (Oct. 13), police said Saturday. The suicide bomber detonated his explosive laden motorcycle near police in a market of the bordering Spi...
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JALLAABAD (AIP): Residents of the Narang district of Kunar province today (Oct. 13) took out a protest rally against the arrest of a cleric by coalition forces. Governor Kunar, Shalezai Deedar while quoting the protesters told Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) that coalition forces desecrated the holy Qura...
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KABUL (AIP): Eid-ul-Fitr celebrated across Afghanistan today (Friday) with religious zeal and fervor. The government had yesterday (Oct. 11) announced that Eid-ul-Fitr will be celebrated tomorrow (Friday). The announcement was made after the Saudi Arabia government officially declared t...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): At least two police were killed and four others wounded in a roadside bomb blast in the southern Helmand province today (Oct. 12), police said Friday. The roadside bomb hit the police vehicle on Kandahar-Herat highway near Gereshk Eidgah soon after the Eid prayers, said Muhammad H...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Renowned jehadi commander of Kandahar, Mulla Naqibullah Akhunzada died of heart attack last night and laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard in Arghandab district today (Oct. 12). Over 100,000 people including a delegation representing President Hamid Karzai offered his funeral p...
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KABUL (AIP): Taliban on Thursday (Oct. 11) said seven of the executed inmates of the notorious Pul-e-Charkhi Jail were Taliban. An email received by Afghan Islamic Press while quoting Taliban spokesman Qari Muhammad Yousaf Ahmadi said, "Seven of those prisoners who were executed in Kabul, wer...