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KABUL (AIP): While refuting allegations of civilian casualties during an air strike in Helmand today (Feb. 14), ISAF said precision laser guided munitions impacted on target and resulted in the death of confirmed "extremists leader" and his several associates. There was no appreciable damage to ot...
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KABUL (AIP): Japan to provide 6.7 million dollars assistance to Afghanistan, which will be spent on construction of roads in capital Kabul. In this connection an agreement was inked between the two countries in Kabul today (Feb. 13). The Afghan Interior Minister, Rangin Dadfar Spanta who was a...
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KABUL (AIP): Afghan President Hamid Karzai embarked on the official visist of Turkmenistan, United Kingdom and Italy Tuesday (Feb. 13) According to sources in the presidential office in Kabul said the President will first visit Turkmenistan to attended the installation ceremony of the new pres...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): A Taliban commander among ten fighters were killed in NATO air strike while Taliban overran a district headquarters in Helmand province, police and residents said Monday (Feb. 12). Commander Maulvi Muhammad Yahya and his nine aides were killed in the Mirmando area of Gereshk distri...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): An Afghan soldier was slightly injured when soldiers of Afghan National Army exchanged fire with NATO forces in Kandahar today (Feb. 12), Corps commander said Monday. The incident was happened in Shorandam area, on Kandahar-Spin Boldak highway, west of Kandahar City. The incide...
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JALALABAD (AIP): Landsliding triggered by persistent rains, blocked Kaunar-Jalalabad highway today (Feb. 12), passengers said Monday. The highway was closed at Speen Jumaat area between Soakai and Noor Gul districts of Kunar province. The road is completely blocked as one side of the road is t...
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JALALABAD (AIP): A roadside bomb injured a soldier of coalition forces in the Khugyani district of eastern Ningarhar province today (Feb. 12), coalition and Afghan officials said Monday. The coalition soldier was wounded when an improvised explosive device struck a Humvee todad, said Maj. Chris Be...
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KABUL (AIP): The Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Jalalabad, Ningarhar province distributed supplies to schools in the region. A press release issued by ISAF Sunday (Feb. 11) said the Jalalabad PRT distributed teacher kits, student kits, hygiene kits, first-aid kits and tarps to the Char Bagh...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): An operation would soon be conducted amid reports of rising Taliban activities in Sangin and other districts of the sourthern Kanandahar province, governor said Sunday (Feb. 11). About 700 foreign fighters including Chechens, Arabs and Pakistan have arrived in Sangin and other dist...
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KABUL (AIP): A US service member died of a gunshot wound today (Feb. 11) in Balkh province, Afghanistan, say a press release issued by coalition forces Sunday. The press release did not disclose the nature of the incident in which the US soldier was wounded and killed. It said the name of t...