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8 Taliban killed, 19 injured in Afghan air force airstrikes
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 9 (ANI): At least eight Taliban were killed and 19 others were injured in airstrikes conducted by the Afghan Air Force (AAF) in support of Afghanistan National Defence and Security Forces (ANDSF) operations in Sayed Karam district of country's Paktia province, Afg
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27 children killed, 136 injured in past 72 hours as violence escalates in
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva (Switzerland), August 9 (ANI): At least 27 children have been killed and 136 injured over the past 72 hours as violence escalated in Afghanistan, the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) said on Monday.
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Afghanistan's Samangan province capital falls to Taliban as violence inten
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 9 (ANI): The Taliban have captured Samangan province's capital Aybak city on Monday amid US troops' withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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Massive fighting underway between Taliban terrorists, Afghan security forc
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 9 (ANI): Massive fighting between the Afghan forces and the Taliban terrorists is underway in the country's northern provinces of Balkh and Takhar since Sunday night, local media reports said quoting provincial officials.
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Over 570 Taliban terrorists killed in Afghanistan in past 24 hours
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 9 (ANI/Sputnik): The Afghan government forces have eliminated over 570 terrorists of the Taliban (a terrorist group, banned in Russia) in the past 24 hours, the defense ministry said on Monday.
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Civilian killed, two Afghan security personnel injured in Kabul bomb blast
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 9 (ANI): A civilian was killed and two Afghan security force members were injured after a bomb blast hit a vehicle carrying a government official in Bagrami district in the eastern part of Kabul on Monday.
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3 Pakistani soldiers injured in landmine explosion, firing from across Afg
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Waziristan [Pakistan], August 9 (ANI): Three Pakistani soldiers were injured in a landmine explosion and firing from across the Afghan border in South Waziristan and North Waziristan tribal districts on Sunday, local media reported.
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Editor killed, journalist taken hostage by Taliban in Kabul
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 9 (ANI): Editor-in-chief of Afghanistan's Paktia Ghag radio station Toofan Omari was killed in the Deh Sabz district of Kabul on Sunday. While a journalist has been taken hostage by the Taliban in war-torn Afghanistan's Helmand province.
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Congress leader Jaiveer Shergill urges Jaishankar for evacuation of Hindus
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 9 (ANI): Congress leader Jaiveer Shergill on Monday urged the Centre for an immediate evacuation of Hindus and Sikhs from Afghanistan on special visas considering escalating violence by the Taliban.
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Talibanisation of Afghanistan to have grave regional consequences, says ex
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
London [UK], August 9 (ANI): As the Taliban's strengthens its position in war-torn Afghanistan after the withdrawal of western forces, experts believe that it will have serious regional consequences.
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Western media slammed over 'lack of coverage' of human rights violations i
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 9 (ANI): Sharing a video of the recent killing of a child, the western media has come under severe criticism over its lack of coverage of human rights breaches in the war-torn country by the Taliban.
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Afghanistan: Clashes claim 20 civilians life, health clinic, school in Hel
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 9 (ANI): Amid heavy clashes between the Taliban and Afghan forces in the city of Lashkargah, Helmand's capital, 20 civilians lost their lives and a health clinic and a school were destroyed in airstrikes on Sunday.
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