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KABUL (AIP): UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Kabul on a surprised visit Friday (June 29). He met with President Hamid Karzai and the commander of NATO troops Gen Dan McNeil and other officials soon after his arrival and discussed security situation in the Afghanistan. Issues on the...
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GHAZNI (AIP): A clash between Taliban and police left two Taliban dead and five wounded during a clash in Zabul province last night, an official said Friday (June 29). The clash took place in the Takir village of Mezana district when police engaged Taliban, said Younus Akhunzada, in-charge of Mez...
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KABUL (AIP): The workers of a de-mining NGO, who were kidnapped last week in Ghazni province, were freed separately, a spokesman confirmed Thursday (June. 28). Off the 18 kidnapped workers, 11 were released last night while seven were freed today, Inayatullah Khan, spokesman of MDC NGO told Afgh...
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KABUL (AIP): A foreign soldier and a woman were killed and eight people were wounded in a suicide explosion in capital Kabul today (June 28), interior ministry said Thursday. The suicide bomber rammed his explosive laden car into the convoy of foreign troops in Bagrami area of the city at approxi...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Heavy rains killed three and wounded 14 people in Khost and Kandahar provinces of Afghanistan, doctor, residents said Thursday (June 28). Torrential rains damaged several houses in Kandahar City in which one person was killed and 10 wounded last night, said Doctor Abdul Qayum, a s...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): A suicide bomber crashed his explosive laden car into the convoy of foreign troops in Paktika province today (June 28) but there were no details of the damage, eyewitnesses said Thursday. Flames rose when the bomber rammed his car into the foreign forces convoy at approximately 5:...
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KABUL (AIP), June 17, 2007: A powerful bomb ripped through a police bus near Kabul police training academy, killing at least 37 people including policemen and civilians and wounded dozens of others, said a high-ranking police official Sunday. "A powerful bomb went off inside a police vehicle, ca...
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KANDAHAR, June 17, 2007 (AIP): Taliban on Sunday rejected a police claim that 30 Taliban insurgents were killed in NATO bombing in Khas Orozagan district of Orozagan province last night, saying all the killed were common people. A Taliban spokesman Qari Yousaf Ahmadi told AIP on telephone from an u...
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KABUL, June 17, 2007 (AIP): Afghan and Coalition forces discovered improvised explosive device -making material and ammunition in a raid on a suspected safehouse in Nahri Siraj district of Helmand province early Sunday. No shots were fired and no one was injured in the operation, said Coalition p...
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JALALABAD (AIP): Two rockets were fired at coalition forces base in the Khugyani district of Ningarhar last night, causing no damage, police said Saturday (June 16). The rockets missed their target and landed in barren field near the coalition forces base, spokesman of Ningarhar police, Colonel A...