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KABUL (AIP): An Afghan child alleged died of ISAF troops fire near Lashkar Gah, capital of Helmand province yesterday (Oct. 19), an ISAF statement said Saturday. The statement said ISAF troops fired warning shot as a vehicle approached their patrol. "The driver of the vehicle failed to heed a...
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HERAT (AIP): President Hamid Karzai arrived in Herat City today (Oct. 20) to open the Economic Cooperation Organization foreign ministers meeting. The president arrived at 10:30 a.m. local time in the provincial capital of this western province of war-torn Afghanistan, bordering Iran. Delega...
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JALALABAD (AIP): Afghan National Army (ANA), Afghan National Police (ANP) and the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) launched Operation De Rock Bark Kooch (Rock Avalanche) last night in Kunar Province, an ISAF statement said Saturday. The combined operation involves hundreds of Afghan...
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KHOST (AIP): Unidentified gunmen killed a tribal elder and wounded his son near Gardez city today (Oct. 20), police said Saturday. Tribal elder Haji Rahmatullah was injured in the attack in Khutba area, seven kilometers from Gardez City and succumbed his wounds in the hospital, said General Asmat...
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KABUL (AIP): Coalition forces detained four suspects today (Oct. 19) in Zabul Province, a coalition statement said Friday. The coalition forces were carrying out an operation against Taliban in the Shahjoy district when they came under fire during a search of a compound, the statement said....
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HERAT (AIP): Iranian foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki arrived in the western Herat province of Afghanistan today (Oct. 19) to attend Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) conference. The Iranian foreign minister arrived at 11 a.m. local time. According to Afghan officials, foreign ministers...
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KABUL (AIP): President Hamid Karzai on Friday (Oct. 19) condemned bomb explosions on the welcoming procession of Benazir Bhutto, former prime minister of Pakistan, in Karachi last night and termed it a barbaric step. "Benazir Bhutto is a brave woman of Pakistan and the killing of people who had...
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JALALABAD (AIP): Two brothers were killed in a landmine blast in the eastern Ningarhar province today (Oct. 19), residents said Friday. Both were playing when one of them stepped on a mine in Samar Khail, Behsud district at approximately 11:30 a.m. A resident told Afghan Islamic Press that the...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Coalition forces killed 13 Taliban during an airstrike in the southern Helmand province today (Oct. 19), the US-led coalition said Friday. In a statement issued by coalition press office in Kandahar said coalition aircraft struck Taliban in the Regi area of Sangin district of Helm...
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KHOST (AIP): At least four policemen were killed and three others were injured when armed Taliban attacked a vehicle of police at Ali Sher district of Khost province near border with Pakistan this morning, said an official on Thursday. Taliban have not yet claimed responsibility for the incident...