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QALAT (AIP): At least two Taliban militants were eliminated in clashes with police when a group a hundred armed Taliban attacked the headquarters of Zana Khan district of central Ghazni province last night (Nov 22), an official said Friday. District chief of Zana Khan, Allah Yar Habibi, told AIP...
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JALALABAD (AIP): Rockets fired by Taliban struck a village near Asadabad, capital of eastern Kunar province last night, injuring five women and two children, police said Friday (Nov. 23). Police Chief of Kunar, Abdul Jalal Jalal confirmed to Afghan Islamic Press that the rockets hit houses in Dam...
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KABUL (AIP): One soldier of NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and three civilians were killed early today (Nov. 23) during a fire fight in Tarin Kowt, Uruzgan province, an ISAF statement said Friday. The fire fight started by Taliban lasted for several hours in which a "sign...
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HERAT (AIP): Taliban once again captured Gulistan district of the western Farah province last night without any resistance, governor said Friday (Nov. 23). Police who were very few in number retreated from the district headquarters as they could not resisted Taliban, Mohiuddin Baloch, governor Fa...
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QALAT (AIP): A district police chief and his son were killed and three policemen were wounded in an explosion in Zabul province today (Nov. 22), an official said Thursday. Police chief of Atghar district Ibrahim Jan who was also acting district in-charge was traveling in his vehicle with his son an...
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HERAT (AIP): Taliban attacked Herat airport with rockets last night, causing no loss of life or property, police said Thursday (Nov. 22). Commander of Herat border police, Rahmatullah Safi, told Afghan Afghan Islamic Press that five rockets were fired at the airport where foreign troops are based...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Unidentified gunmen abducted a district customs officer in the southern Kandahar province today (Nov. 22), informed sources said Thursday. The vehicle of customs in-charge of Spin Boldak, bordering Balochistan province of Pakistan was attacked by known gunmen in the Woud Ghar are...
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KHOST (AIP): Unidentified gunmen shot dead the head of a construction company in Khost province today's evening (Nov. 22), an official said Thursday. Waraq Dilpori, head of Waraq Dilpori Construction Company (WDCC) was killed in the Shambawat area of Nadar Shah Kot district, said Wa...
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KABUL (AIP): 20 prisoners, facing terrorism charges, have been shifted from Bagram Airbase to notorious Pul-e-Charkhi prison, said a press release issued by the Afghan interior ministry Wednesday (Nov 21). The statement said that the prisoners hailing from different areas of Afghanistan were det...
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JALALABAD (AIP): The Ningarhar counter-narcotics police torched hunderds of kilogram of narcotics in the Hesar Shahi area of Jalalabad, today (Nov. 21). Police had seized these narcotics in different operations during the past one year. Governor Ningarhar, deputy governor, provincial police...