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KANDAHAR (AIP): Four Afghan militia and 10 truck drivers were killed as Taliban attacked a convoy of vehicles, supplying logistic goods to foreign troops, in Kandahar today (March. 24), police said Friday. The vehicles were supplying goods to foreign troops in Uruzgan and was attacked in the Shah...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Afghan and NATO forces killed two and wounded six Taliban during a clash on Kandahar-Kabul highway in Zabul yesterday (March. 23), a military officer said Saturday. The NATO and Afghan troops engaged Taliban in the Tazi area after they were informed that Taliban had blocked Kandah...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Six Taliban and two civilians were killed during a fierce firefight between Taliban and Afghan forces in Uruzgan province last night, police claimed Saturday (March. 24). It was a fierce clash that took place in the Chinar Toot area of Chora district, said General Muhammad Qasim,...
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HERAT (AIP): A local police commander and his wife was killed shot dead by his brother-in-law in the western Herat province today (March. 24), police said Saturday. The brother-in-law of Police commander Abdul Ghani Khan opened firing on him when he visited his house along with wife and a doctor...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Two coalition troops were wounded when their vehicle was blow up with an improvised explosive device last night (March 22) in the Gailan district of Gahzni province, official said Friday. A coalition vehicle was disabled with an improvised explosive device in the Gailan district...
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KABUL (AIP): Afghan and Coalition forces captured eight suspected "extremists" during separate operations in eastern Afghanistan early today (March. 22), US-led coalition said Thursday. The statement said five suspected people were arrested during a raid on a compound near Asadabad in Kunar provi...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): The number of Taliban, killed during the continuing clashes with Afghan and foreign forces in Helmand province Thursday (March. 22), has reached to 38 as police claimed that 28 more fighters were killed in different areas. However, Taliban termed the figure exaggerated. A total of 3...
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KABUL (AIP): Local Afghan officials, together with ISAF Forces, recently provided humanitarian assistance to an estimated 500 Afghans affected by the recent flooding in the Uruzgan Province, an ISAF statement said Thursday (March. 22). The statement said shelters were immediately established to...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): A housing project for government employees was inaugurated in Laghkargah, capital of Helmand province Tuesday (March. 20). Governor of southern Helmand province, Haji Asadullah Wafa, laid the foundation stone of the housing scheme March. 19. Talking to Afghan Islamic Press the...
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MAZAR-E-SHARIF (AIP): The Nowruz festival was started in Afghanistan with the hoisting of flag at the shrine of Hazrat Ali (R.A) in Mazar-e-sharif, capital of Balkh province Wednesday (March. 21). Nowruz is a spring festival celebrated at the first day of the each new year of Persian calendar in...