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Taliban capture border checkpoint in northern Afghanistan
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Dushanbe [Tajikistan], June 28 (ANI/Sputnik): The Taliban have captured a border crossing in Afghanistan's northern province of Balkh, resulting in 17 Afghan servicemen retreating into neighboring Tajikistan, the country's border service told Sputnik on Sunday.
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24 terrorist killed in northern Afghanistan
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Kunduz [Afghanistan], June 26 (ANI/Xinhua): At least 24 Taliban terrorists were killed and 15 others wounded in battles in Kunduz city, capital of Afghanistan's northern Kunduz province during Friday night, sources said Saturday.
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US launches drone strikes in northern Afghanistan, says defence official
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Washington [US], June 26 (ANI): The United States has launched two drone strikes against Taliban positions in northern Afghanistan, confirmed a US defence official on Friday (local time).
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5.1 magnitude quake rattles northern Afghanistan
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 25 (ANI): An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 on the Richter scale hit Charikar in northern Afghanistan early on Friday, informed the US Geological Survey.
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Taliban seize two districts in Afghanistan's north, 16 soldiers dead in cl
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 19 (ANI/Sputnik): Sixteen Afghan security force members are dead and 14 others were captured by the Taliban during clashes in northern Afghanistan, where two district centers have been seized by the radical movement, TOLOnews reported on Saturday.
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Clashes with Taliban in northern Afghanistan leaves 23 Afghan troops dead
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 17 (ANI/Sputnik): Clashes between the Afghan army forces and Taliban fighters in the Faryab province in the country's north claimed at least 23 lives on the side of the armed forces, an anonymous security source told the TOLOnews outlet on Thursday.
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Suicide car bombing kills 3 soldiers in northern Afghanistan
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Baghlan [Afghanistan], June 10 (ANI/Xinhua): Three Afghan soldiers and an assailant were killed and three soldiers wounded in a pre-dawn Taliban suicide car bombing in the country's northern province of Baghlan on Thursday, a local army source confirmed.
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UN condemns 'horrendous attack' on deminers in Afghanistan
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New York [US], June 10 (ANI): The United Nations has called for an investigation into the attack in northern Afghanistan against the HALO Trust, a humanitarian group working to rid the country of landmines.
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Afghan forces suffer 14 deaths, 37 taken hostage after clashes with Taliba
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 6 (ANI/Sputnik): The Afghan army has lost 14 troops, and 37 other soldiers were captured during the hostilities with the Taliban militants in northern Afghanistan, the TOLOnews media outlet reported on Sunday, citing a local source.
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Two killed as avalanche hits Afghanistan's Shakai district
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Faizabad [Afghanistan], March 23 (ANI): An avalanche in the Shakai district of Badakhshan province, northern Afghanistan killed two people and injured two others, a member of the provincial council Mahboub Rahman Talat said on Tuesday.
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Six military personnel killed in Taliban attack in northern Afghanistan
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], March 13 (ANI/Sputnik): Six Afghan security troops died in an attack carried out by the Taliban on Saturday in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz, sources told Sputnik.
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14 killed in avalanche in northern Afghanistan
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Badakhshan [Afghanistan], March 4 (ANI/Xinhua): Fourteen villagers were killed and three others wounded after an avalanche struck a far-flung area in the northern Afghan province of Badakhshan on Thursday, a local government spokesman confirmed.
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