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KANDAHAR (AIP): Eight suspected Taliban were killed last night after an attack on combined patrol of Afghan and NATO forces in Helmand province, police said Wednesday (July 11). Taliban attacked a combined patrol of Afghan and NATO forces in the Kajaki district of Helmand province but did not inf...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): A suicide bomber targeting NATO troops blew himself up in Dehrwod district of Rozgan province, killing 11 people mostly civilians including four Dutch soldiers, sources told AIP on Sunday. ISAF press office in Kabul confirmed the blast report but would not elaborate on details. H...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Five police were killed and six others wounded as Taliban ambushed a police party in Ghorak district of Kandahar province July 07, interior ministry said Monday (July 09). A number of policemen are also missing and seven police vehicles were destroyed in the firefight, said Zamaray...
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KHOST (AIP): Four soldier of NATO-led ISAF were wounded in a roadside bomb blast in Paktika province yesterday (July 08), an ISAF spokesman said. The incident was happened in the Khushamand district when an ISAF vehicle struck a landmine, spokesman of ISAF troops in Khost told Afghan Islamic Pres...
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HERAT (AIP): Two Afghan soldiers were killed and six others wounded in exchange of fire between two ANA soldiers in western Afghanistan today (July 09), defence ministry said Monday. A soldier of 207th Zafar Corps of Afghan Army opened fire on his colleagues after exchange of harsh words, said Mu...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Gunmen killed an Afghan police officer and his seven-year-old son in front of their house in Karta Lagan village of Lakhkar Gah city in Helmand province, police sources said on Sunday . Abdul Hadi, an Afghan police officer and his seven year son was shot dead by some unknown gunme...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Some unknown armed men sprayed bullets at a member of Orozgan Ulema Council in Center of Orozgan province, Tereen Kot, killing him on the spot on early Sunday, official said. Orozgan police chief General Mohammad Qasim told AIP that some unknown gunmen shot a member of Orozgan Ulem...
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JALALABAD (AIP): An airstrike in the eastern Kunar province left 20 Taliban and 11 civilian dead yesterday (July 06), governor said Saturday. Coalition forces and Afghan National Army troops clashed with Taliban in the Sangsar area of Wattapur district, killing 20 Taliban and wounding 16 others, sai...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Four Canadian troops were injured in a suicide attack in Kandahar City early today (July 07), a military commander said Saturday. A commander of Canadian troops in Kandahar told Afghan Islamic Press that one vehicle of Canadian troops was also damaged in the attack. He would no...
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GHAZNI (AIP): Taliban on Saturday (July 07) claimed they had killed eight soldiers of Afghan National Army in Ghazni province. Afghan official, however, rejected Taliban claims of police casualties. Taliban fired RPG-7 at ANA vehicles in the Peshiband area of Shinkai district in Ghazni province w...