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KANDAHAR (AIP): A suicide bomber attacked the convoy of Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Lashkar Gah, capital of southern Helmand province today (March. 13), causing casualties, eyewitnesses said Tuesday. As soon as the PRT convoy came out of its base the suicide bomber attacked it, eyewitne...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Another suicide explosion was carried out near the base of Afghan National Army (ANA) in Lashkar Gah today (March. 13), eyewitnesses, interior ministry said Tuesday. It was the second suicide attack within an hour in this provincial capital. The incident happened near the recruitme...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): A suicide bomber detonated explosives strapped to his body at a chick post in Kandahar today (March. 13), killing three civilians and wounding eight others, border police said Tuesday. The bomber blew up himself during body search at a border post in Spin Boldak district at approx...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): A ten-member Afghan Jirga Commission headed by Pir Syed Ahmed Gillani is set to hold talks with Pakistan Jirga Commision in Islamabad today (March. 12) The Afghan Jirga Commission arrived in Islamabad on a three-day official visit yesterday (March. 11). The Pakistan Jirga Commissio...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Afghan National Army captured a "high-ranking suicide attack coordinator" during operations in the Panjwayee district of Kandcity province last week, the NATO-led ISAF said Monday (March. 12) "While conducting search operations near Zangabad, the Afghan National Army patrol captur...
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HERAT (AIP): Afghan security personnel seized 130 landmines in Farah city, police said Monday. The landmines were recovered with two rocket rounds from an abandoned house, said Sayyed Agha Saqib, police chief of Farah province. Each mine weighing two kilograms in the cache had been brought to...
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HERAT (AIP): Taliban fighters, dressed in police uniform, attacked a border post in Farah province on Iran-Afghanistan border last night, police said Monday (March. 12). The border post was attacked near Iran boder in Bakwa district in which police showed strong resistence and killed two fighters...
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KABUL (AIP): Two fighters were killed while two Afghan and a coalition soldiers were wounded during an operation this morning (March. 12) near Gereshk in Helmand province, a coalition statement said Monday. The statement said high-powered sniper rifles were also recovered in the operation targ...
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HERAT (AIP): A roadside bomb killed nine policemen including a district police chief in Farah province today (March. 12), police said Monday. The police chief of Bakwa district Sufi Muhammad Karam was on patrol when the vehicle he was traveling in hit a landmine, killing the district police chief...
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MAZAR-E-SHARIF (AIP): Afghan police and personnel of Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) discovered and defused three landmines in Mazar-e-Sharif City last night, sources said Monday (March. 12). The mines planted at a roadside in the northern side of the shrine of Hazrat Ali were discovered by...