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KABUL (AIP): Afghan and coalition forces detained three suspected Taliban during a two-day operation in the eastern Ningarhar province, a coalition statement said late Thursday night (Sept. 13). The operation which concluded this morning was conducted 30 miles southwest of Jalalabad in the Sherza...
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HERAT (AIP): A group of dacoits stormed a market in Herat City yesterday, killing a money changer and wounding two others, police said Friday. The burglars who attacked the money changers market in the Shehr-e-Naw area of the City also snatched 300,000 afghani, said Muhammad Shafiq Fazli, provinc...
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KHOST (AIP): A roadside bomb explosion left five Afghan police dead and one wounded in Khost province today (Sept. 14), a police officer said Friday. The incident was happened in the Khabisat area of Yaqubi district when a police vehicle struck a roadside bomb, said Azizullah, criminal investiga...
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KHOST (AIP): The remaining three abducted workers of a de-mining NGO were freed today (Sept. 13), an official said Thursday. Head of Afghan Technical Consultants (ATC), Kifayatullah Ablagh told Afghan Islamic Press that the remaining three workers who were abducted with 10 other colleagues on Sep...
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KABUL (AIP): Afghan and Coalition forces killed over 45 Taliban during a clash today (Sept. 13) in Oruzgan Province, a coalition statement said late Wednesday night. The firefight erupted after Taliban attacked a combined ANA and Coalition patrol in Aduzay Village, Deh Rawood District, the statem...
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KABUL (AIP): Taliban on Thursday (Sept. 13) once again rejected reports that Taliban had freed South Korean hostages in exchange for ransom. A statement of Taliban leadership council sent to Afghan Islamic Press by Taliban spokesmen Zabihullah Mujahid and Qari Muhammad Yousaf Ahmadi, said, "The...
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JALALABAD (AIP): A missing policeman was found dead while four police were wounded in roadside bomb explosion in the eastern Ningarhar province today (Sept. 13), an official said Thursday. The body of the policeman, who went missing a few days back, was found on Jalalabad-Torkham highway, an off...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): A roadside bomb went off in the Arghandab district of Zabul province last night, causing no damage, police said Thursday (Sept. 13). Provincial Police Chief General Muhammad Yaqub told Afghan Islamic Press that the explosion happened soon after the passing of a coalition convoy fr...
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QALAT (AIP): A police vehicle was attacked by some armed militants in Maqur district of Ghazni province, sparking a search operation in the area by Afghan National Army (ANA) on Wednesday morning (Sept 12). Provincial police chief of Ghazni Gen Ali Shah Ahmadzai told AIP on Wednesday that the police...
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KABUL (AIP): Taliban fired three mortar shells at an ISAF center in Kala Gosh area of Noorigram district in Nursitan province on Wednesday morning (Sept 12) causing no casualty to the foreign troops, said a spokesman for ISAF. Earlier, the Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told AIP over phone...