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KANDAHAR (AIP): A suicide car bomber attacked a convoy of Afghan National Army in Kandahar today (Oct. 14), eyewitnesses said Saturday. The bomber detonated his explosive laden car near the ANA convoy on Kandahar-Heart highway in Zehri district of Kandahar province today (Oct. 14) in which the bo...
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KABUL (AIP): Five rockets were fired at the office of Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Kunduz province last night, sources said Saturday (Oct. 14). Sources informed AIP that the rockets were fired at PRT office in Angor Bagh of Kunduz province but there were no details of the damage. Fo...
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HERAT (AIP): Deputy Director for Rural Development Herat, Engineer Hamidullah Gillani has said that 291 uplift projects have been completed at a cost of 30 million US dollars in Herat province. Talking to Afghan Islamic Press here on Saturday (Oct. 14) he said 800 different development projected...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): The first-ever registration of Afghan citizens in Pakistan will start tomorrow (Sunday, Oct. 15) to provide eligible Afghans with official identification during their temporary stay in Pakistan, says a UNHCR press issued Saturday (Oct. 14). Only Afghans included in the 2005 census ca...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): A clash between Taliban and Afghan police left two policemen and three fighters dead in Zabul last night, police said Saturday (Oct. 14). Taliban attacked a police patrol in Shehr-e-Safa district of Zabul, killing two policemen, Police Chief of Zabul, Noor Muhammad Pakteen told Af...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Five passers-by were killed while two ISAF soldiers and a number of civilians were injured in Kandahar suicide attack today, a NATO spokesman said Friday (Oct. 13). It was a suicide explosion as a bomber blew up himself near NATO-led ISAF vehicles in Kandahar city, killing five ci...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): NATO-led ISAF claimed killing 20 fighters during a clash in restive southern Kandahar province yesterday (Oct. 12). Maj. Morell, spokesman of ISAF in Kandahar told Afghan Islamic Press that the firefight took place in Spirwan area of Panjwaee after Taliban attacked an ISAF convoy...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban on Friday claimed killing 16 soldiers of NATO-led ISAF during a firefight in Badakhshan province today (Oct. 13). Dr. Muhammad Hanif, spokesman of Taliban fighters told Afghan Islamic Press by phone from an undisclosed that a fierce firefight between Taliban and NATO troops...
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KHOST (AIP): At least 15 people including three soldiers of Afghan National Army were wounded in two separate suicide attacks in Khost province today (Oct. 12), eyewitnesses said Thursday. Eyewitnesses told Afghan Islamic Press that the first suicide attack was happened in Khost city while the se...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): A landmine explosion left one soldier of Afghan National Army dead and three others wounded in Uruzgan province yesterday (Oct. 11), police said Thursday. A vehicle of Afghan National Army was blown up with a remote controlled landmine in between Chora and Dehrawod districts of Ur...