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15 Taliban terrorists killed, 3 injured by Afghan forces in Kandahar
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Kandahar [Afghanistan], February 4 (ANI): Fifteen Taliban terrorists were killed and three others suffered injuries in an operation by the Afghan forces in the southern province of Kandahar, the country's defence ministry said on Thursday.
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Afghan security forces kill over 60 Taliban terrorists in Kandahar
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], December 13 (ANI/Sputnik): The Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) said on Sunday that 63 Taliban terrorists, including seven suicide attackers, had been killed and 29 others injured in the southern province of Kandahar over the past 72 hours.
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Afghan Army counterattacks in Kandahar, leaves 90 Taliban killed
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Kandahar [Afghhanistan], December 12 (ANI/Sputnik): Clashes between the Afghan National Security Forces and the Taliban in the southern province of Kandahar have left 90 terrorists killed, the Afghan Defense Ministry said in a press release on Saturday.
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US military confirms retaliatory air strike against Taliban in Kandahar
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Kandahar [Afghanistan], December 12 (ANI/Sputnik): The US forces here has conducted an airstrike against the Taliban, as the terror group attacked an Afghan army checkpoint in Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar earlier this week.
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Another Afghanistan journalist killed in blast
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], November 13 (ANI): Days after an Afghanistan journalist lost his life in a blast in Kabul, a radio journalist was killed on Thursday in a magnetic IED blast in the southern province of Helmand.
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Clashes between Afghan forces, Taliban continue in 3 Afghan districts
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], October 31 (ANI): Local officials on Saturday reported ongoing clashes between the government forces and the Taliban in three southern provinces of Afghanistan, namely Helmand, Kandahar and Uruzgan over the last few days.
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Taliban say US airstrikes in Afghanistan 'direct violation' of Doha agreem
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], October 18 (ANI/Sputnik): The United States' move to resume "excessive" airstrikes in Afghanistan amid clashes in the southern province of Helmand presents a grave violation of the Doha agreement, the Taliban said on Sunday.
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Xi Jinping instructs troops to focus on 'preparing for war'
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Hong Kong [China], October 14 (ANI): While visiting a military base in the southern province of Guangdong on Tuesday, Chinese President Xi Jinping instructed troops to "put their minds and energy on preparing for war", according to news agency Xinhua.
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170 Talibs dead as Afghan forces launch counteroffensive in Helmand
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Helmand [Afghanistan], October 12 (ANI/Sputnik): A total of 170 Taliban terrorists have been killed in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand after government forces moved to retake territories following the movement's days-long offensive in the region, the provincial police chief said o
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Afghan security forces free 43 servicemen, civilians from Taliban prison i
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], October 10 (ANI/Sputnik): The Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) have freed 43 personnel and civilians from a Taliban prison in the southern province of Zabul, the country's Defense Ministry said on Saturday.
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Afghanistan: 5 soldiers, 4 civilians killed in Helmand bomb attack
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], October 01 (ANI/Sputnik): Five Afghan soldiers and four civilians were killed in a car bomb attack in the southern province of Helmand, the provincial governor's spokesman said on Thursday.
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Fresh clashes between Taliban, Afghan army result in multiple casualties
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 13 (ANI/Sputnik): Clashes between the Afghan army and the Taliban in the country's southern province of Kandahar and eastern province of Nangarhar have left at least six insurgents killed and many others injured, a Sputnik correspondent reported on Saturday,
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