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KANDAHR (AIP): A security guard of USPI (US protection and investigation) was killed and one was injured during a clash with armed Taliban in Zehri district of Kandahar province, an official of USPI told AIP on Thursday (August 30). He said that the Taliban might have also suffered casualties dur...
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JALALABAD (AIP): At least eight people were killed when their houses were hit by two missiles fired by some unknown persons in Banda area of Manogi district in Kunar province on Thursday (August 30), official and people of the area said. A spokesman for provincial police, Abdul Sabor to...
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JALALABAD (AIP): A contracted helicopter struck by a rocket-propelled grenade in Kamdesh district of Nuristan province yesterday (August 29) was safely landed with minor damage to it, said a press release issued by Coalition here Thursday (August 30). The pilots were not injured in the attack, the...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): A purported Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousaf has said that they would free the remaining seven South Korean hostages after a few minutes and will also release a message of the Taliban for the South Korean government.
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban freed four more of remaining seven South Korean hostages including two women and men on Thursday evening (August 30), Haji Zahir a tribal leader. He confirmed that the four were handed over them by the Taliban. He expressed the hope that the remaining three would be release...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban freed the remaining three South Korean hostages and handed them over the tribal elders in central Afghanistan on Thursday, said a Taliban spokesman. With the release of these three South Koreans now there is no hostage in the captivity of the Taliban.
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Taliban say to free a group of hostages August 29, 2007 KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban said Wednesday that a group of South Koran hostages will be freed today (Wednesday), August 29. A Taliban spokesman Qari Mohamad Yousaf told AIP over phone that according to the agreement reached with Korean official...
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KABUL (AIP): Taliban on Wednesday (Aug. 29) said that five more Korean hostages would be freed today. A purported Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousaf Ahmadi told AIP that a five more South Korean hostages would be released shortly today. He did not mention a specific time of the release bu...
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KHOST (AIP): Six people including two soldiers of the Afghan National Army were killed in a suicide explosion in Paktika province today (Aug. 29), an official said Wednesday. The suicide bomber detonated himself in Barmal bazar, at approximately 11:00 a.m. local time, killing himself, two ANA tro...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban on Wednesday (Aug. 29) released another group of five South Korean hostages which raised the number of freed hostages to eight today. Taliban handed over five more Korean hostages including a four women and a man to us who will be turned over to ICRC near Ghazni city, Haji M...