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KABUL (AIP): NATO and Afghan forces captured five suspected Taliban fighters including a Talib commander during joint operations in Zabul yesterday (Dec. 18), interior ministry said Tuesday. The operations were conducted in the Sheh-e-Safa district of Zabul in which a Taliban commander Mulla Nazi...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): A suicide bomber attacked a convoy of NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Kandahar today (Dec. 18) but there no details of the casualties, eyewitnesses said Monday. The ISAF convoy was attacked in Daman district, 15 kilometers to east of Kandahar City but Af...
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KABUL (AIP): Unidentified gunmen kidnapped five engineers in Ghazni province yesterday, interior ministry said Monday (Dec. 18). These engineers were the employees of rural extension ministry and they were on way to Ghazni from Paktika province when abducted, press office of the interior ministry...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Two soldiers International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were wounded and two ISAF vehicles damaged in a roadside bomb blast in Kandahar today (Dec. 18), ISAF spokesman said Monday (Dec. 18). Earlier reports suggested that the explosion was caused by a suicide attack on ISAF co...
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KABUL (AIP): Unknown attackers shot dead a former jihadi commander in Sheendand district of Herat province yesterday, interior ministry said Monday (Dec. 18). The former jihadi commander, Mualim Najeebullah was riding a motorcycle along with anther person when he was attacked by unidentified gunm...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): This afternoon, two Coalition soldiers supporting an ISAF operation were injured when a Suicide Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device (SVIED) struck their convoy east of Kandahar City, a coalition statement said Monday (Dec. 18). Two vehicles were also damaged in the strike,...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban attacked headquarters of Sangin district in southern Helmand province today (Dec. 18), residents said Monday. Taliban fighters are firing at the district headquarters while helicopters were also pounding Choghak village near the headquarters, a resident of the area said. &...
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JALALABAD (AIP): Police and tribal elders jointly destroyed four more heroin factories in the eastern Ningarhar province today (Dec. 17), a member of Ningarhar province council said Sunday. We along with elders and police destroyed four heroin factories and 100 kg opium in the Shinwari area of Ac...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Security forces arrested three policemen on charges of theft in Dand district yesterday, police said Saturday (Dec. 16). All the three were employees of police department and they used to commit robberies by using government weapons, police chef of Kandahar, General Asmatullah Ali...
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KABUL (AIP): A road mishap involving a motorcar and a trailer claimed four lives in Kabul province, today (Dec. 16), interior ministry said Saturday. The trailer collided with the motorcar in Bagh Rais area, one kilometers from Saroobi, on Kabul-Jalalabad highway, leaving all the four people trav...