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HERAT (AIP): Afghan border police seized 300 bottles of liquor and detained six people including a police officer in the western Herat province last night, border police said Saturday (Nov. 17). The six armed smugglers were detained in the Toor Ghundai area on border with Turkmenistan, said Gener...
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JALALABAD (AIP): A suicide bomber attacked a convoy of foreign troops in the eastern Ningarhar province today (Nov. 17) but there were no details of the damage, eyewitnesses said Saturday. The suicide bomber riding a motorcycle attacked international troops in the Hafizano Village of Chaparhar di...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): A commander among 10 policemen were arrested on charges of corruption in the southern Kandahar province today (Nov. 17), police said Saturday. The policemen deployed at Trank Pul check post were arrested on the complaints of local residents they had demanded money and created prob...
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KABUL (AIP): Taliban on Saturday (Nov. 17) claimed they had killed 10 Afghan and foreign troops during a clash in Logar province. Police, however rejected Taliban. Taliban clashed with combined force in the Sarkh district of Regan district of Logar province, killing six foreign and four Afghan tr...
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HERAT (AIP): Five rockets were fired at Herat Airport last night, causing no damage of life or property, police said Saturday (Nov. 17). Provincial police Juma Khan Adeel told Afghan Islamic Press that it was the 8th time that Herat Airport was attacked with rockets. He said a large number of...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Two Canadian soldiers and their Afghan interpreter were killed in a roadside bomb blast in the volatile Kandahar province today (Nov. 17), police said Saturday. The incident was happened in the Zehri district when the vehicle of Canadian troops hit a landmine, said Sayyed Agha Saqi...
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HERAT (AIP): A suicide bomber was killed in a bungled attack on ISAF convoy in the Dilaram district of western Farah province today (Nov. 16), police said Friday. The explosive laden car riding in by the suicide bomber detonated before it could reach the combined convoy of Afghan and ISAF troop...
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HERAT (AIP): Police killed a robber and detained six others during a clash in the Aubai district of Herat province today (Nov. 16). Provincial police chief Juma Khan Adeel told Afghan Islamic Press that the robbers had blocked a road in the district but police reached there and clashed with robbe...
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KABUL (AIP): A roadside bomb detonated near Maidan Sheher, capital of Wardak province today (Nov. 16), causing no damage, an official said Friday. Secretary to governor, Muhammad Sadiq told Afghan Islamic Press that the bomb was planted by unknown people in the Ghlo Ghondai area. He said the b...
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QALAT (AIP): Two people were wounded as Taliban attacked a private car in Qalat, capital of Zabul province today (Nov. 16), a police officer said Friday. The police officer who wished not to be named told Afghan Islamic Press that the private car was attacked in Kharjoyee area of Qalat on Kabul-K...