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KABUL (AIP): Contrary to some reports claiming large number of deaths, one Australian International Security Assistance Force soldier was slightly wounded during an apparent suicide-bombing attack in Uruzgan province today (May. 03), an ISAF statement said Thursday. During the attack, two local...
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KABBUL (AIP): President visited Badakhshan province Thursday (May. 03) and attended a memorial service held in the honour of a mass grave that was recently unearthed in Qorogh desert. A statement issued today said the memorial service held at the site of the mass grave was also attended by Ust...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban, while disassociating themselves from the murder of former prime minister Ustad Abdul Saboor Farid, said Thursday (May. 03) "Taliban did not kill him". Neither Taliban killed him nor they had hand in the killings, Taliban spokesman told Afghan Islamic Press by phone from a...
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KHOST (AIP): Afghan and coalition forces detained eight suspected people during separate operations in Khost province last night, an official said Wednesday (May. 02). The operations were jointly conducted by Afghan and coalition forces in the Yaqoobi district and held these suspects on their lin...
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JALALABAD (AIP): The students of Ningarhar University took out a protest rally Wednesday (May. 02) and torched US flag against the killings of civilians by coalition forces in Ghani Khail, Ningarhar province. Security forces tried to restrict the demonstration to university campus but the student...
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KABUL (AIP): Afghan and coalition forces killed five suspected Taliban during a clash in Maruf district of Kandahar province last night and detained a suspected suicide bomb facilitator in Khost early today (May. 02), a coalition statement said Wednesday. The Afghan Boarder Police and Coalition f...
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HERAT (AIP): At least 42 civilians were killed and 55 wounded by coalition air strike in the western Herat province April. 29, an official said Wednesday (May. 02). The civilians including women and children were killed in bombing by coalition warplanes, Farzana Ahmadi, spokesperson of governor H...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Governor Kandahar said several civilians were also killed with Taliban in the Maruf district of Kandahar province today (May. 02). A press release issued from the office of Governor Kandahar, Asadullah Khalid, Wednesday said a total of 13 people were killed in coalition fire on Ta...
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KABUL (AIP): Unidentified gunmen shot dead a former prime minister and Senate member in Kabul today (May. 02), interior ministry said Wednesday. Member of Masharano Jirga and former prime minister, Ustad Abdul Saboor Farid was killed by unknown gunmen in the Khairkhana area of Capital Kabul, said...
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JALALABAD (AIP): Teachers and students took out a protest rally Tuesday (May 01) against the killing of civilians by coalition forces in the Ghani Khail district of eastern Ningarhar province. Approximately 300 teachers and students assembled in front of the Teacher Training Institute in the prov...