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PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban on Tuesday (August 22) reported the killing of two coalition soldiers in Laghman province today. Coalition forces, however, rejected these reports. Spokesman of Taliban fighters, Dr. Muhammad Hanif, phoned the office of Afghan Islamic Press from an undisclosed location and...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Four NATO troops were wounded as a suicide car bomber rammed his explosive laden car into the convoy of NATO forces in Kandahar today (August 22), a spokesman of NATO-led ISAF said Tuesday. It was a suicide attack mounted on NATO troops in Komanda area of Kandahar city, spokesman o...
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JALALABAD (AIP): Three rockets landed in a district headquarters of Laghman Province last night, causing no damage, police said Tuesday (August 22). Police Chief of Laghman province, Muhammad Leqa Inderabi, while giving details to Afghan Islamic Press said, "Three rockets fired from and unknown lo...
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KABUL (AIP): President Hamid Karzai expressed deep grief and sorrow over the unfortunate death of 58 people in Egypt. According to reports, one commuter train slammed into another at about 7 a.m. at the edge of a cornfield outside this town 20 kilometers north of Cairo, killing at least 58 peopl...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban on Tuesday (August 22) admitted that two of their fighters were killed and three others wounded during ISAF air strike in Zabul last night. Spokesman of Taliban fighters, Qari Muhammad Yousaf, phoned the office of Afghan Islamic Press and said ISAF aircraft pounded Taliban...
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KABUL (AIP): German Foreign Minister Mr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier said that Germany is dedicated to further strengthen its ties with Afghanistan. German Foreign Minister was on his visit to Afghan capital Kabul. He met Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his counterpart Dr Rangen Dad Spanta in Kabul. M...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Three policemen were killed in a roadside bomb explosion in the troubled Helmand province yesterday (August 20), a security official said Monday. A high-ranking security official of Helmand who wished not to be named told Afghan Islamic Press that a police vehicle struck a landmine...
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KHOST (AIP): Two policemen were perished and six wounded in a landmine explosion in Khost province yesterday (August 20), Border police said Monday. Incharge of Khost Border police, Almar Gul Mangal while giving details to Afghan Islamic Press said, "A vehicle of Border police hit a landmine in Ba...
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PESHAWR (AIP): Taliban on Monday (August 21) reported to have torched a vehicle supplying goods to foreign forces in Zabul province. The vehicle was set ablaze in Shahr-e-Safa area of Zabul province on Kabul-Kandahar highway along with goods, spokesman of Taliban fighters Qari Muhammad Yousaf told...
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KABUL (AIP): Afghan National Army (ANA) and Coalition forces arrested an Al-Qaeda suspect in Khost province, said a press release issued from Coalition press center. "ANA and Coalition forces performed a pre-dawn raid today (Sunday) on a compound housing a suspected terrorist near the village...