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KABUL (AIP): Taliban attacked Forward Operating Base Bari Kot in the Kunar province early Saturday morning, killing one civilian contractor and injuring three others, a coalition statement said Wednesday (Jan. 31). Coalition forces took rocket and small arms fire from two nearby ridges and retu...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Two people were killed when a vehicle they were traveling in hit a roadside bomb blast in Kandahar province yesterday, police said Wednesday (Jan. 31). General Asmatullah, police chief of Kandahar province told Afghan Islamic Press that the incident was happened Woch Seend road in...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Afghan police arrested four alleged smugglers and recovered 200 kilograms of opium in two separate incidents yesterday in Kandahar, police said Wednesday (Jan. 31). Police separately intercepted two vehicles in the Arghistan district, recovering 130 kilograms of opium from one veh...
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KHOST (AIP): Taliban attacked a police post in Paktika province today (Jan. 31), killing three policemen and wounding two others, police said Wednesday. Governor of Paktika province, Dr. Muhammad Akram Khpawak told Afghan Islamic Press the police post was attacked in Speen area of Barmal distric...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Two Taliban were killed in a clash with police in the Mezana district of Zabul province last night, a security officer said Tuesday (Jan. 30). Police ambushed a Taliban commander Qari Razeq and his bodyguard Muhammad Khan in Barko area, killing both of them, said Brigadier Rabbani...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): While rejecting Taliban claim of killing a former district chief in Uruzgan today (Jan. 30), spokesman of governor Urugan said the Taliban claim was false. "The ex-police chief of Charcheno district, Naeem Khan, safely reached to his home in police security on his return from Hajj...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Minister for Rural Development, Dr. Muhammad Ihsan Zia has said 76 uplift projects have been approved for Uruzgan and Kandahar province. Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday (Jan. 30) he said, "71 projects including construction of water channels and digging of wells have...
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HERAT (AIP): Three Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers and two civilians injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up near a convoy of Afghan National Army today (Jan. 30), official said on Tuesday. A suicide bomber blew himself up near a ANA convoy in front of Herat Airport that left three ANA...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): ISAF forces from Regional Command-South conducted a village medical outreach (VMO) in the village of Morgan Kecha, Kandahar province Jan. 26, an ISAF statement said Monday (Jan. 29). The statement said ISAF officials met with local elders in the village to discuss the distribution...
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KHOST (AIP): A roadside bomb blast wounded two people in Khost province yesterday evening (Jan. 29), official said Monday. The incident was happened in the Zambar area of Yaqoobi district when a vehicle hit a landmine, leaving two imates wounded, Gul Qaseem Mujahid, district chief of Yaqoo...