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Afghan governor accused of assault, adding woes for Ghani

A powerful Afghan governor is facing accusations he detained and assaulted a political rival in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif this week, the second senior Afghan official to be accused of violence in a year. The fresh allegations add to (...)

MAZAR I SHARIF Reuters Alriyadh

18 - 08 - 2017

Confusion, chaos after Taliban breach Afghan base in deadly attack

Afghan soldier Zabihullah was chatting with an army comrade at their military base in northern Afghanistan when gunfire interrupted their quiet Friday afternoon. "I asked my friend what was happening, and he said, relax, it must be one of us." It (...)

MAZAR I SHARIF The Saudi Gazette

23 - 04 - 2017

Afghanistan gunmen kidnap 52 farmers, regional officials say

Gunmen in Afghanistan kidnapped 52 farmers on Wednesday, most of them members of the minority Uzbek community in the remote northern province of Jowzjan, regional officials said, but the motive for the abductions was not immediately (...)

MAZAR I SHARIF The Saudi Gazette

16 - 02 - 2017

Six Afghan Red Cross workers killed by suspected Daesh gunmen — officials

Suspected Islamic State gunmen killed at least six Afghan employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Wednesday as they carried supplies in the north of the country to areas hit by deadly snow storms, government officials (...)

MAZAR I SHARIF The Saudi Gazette

09 - 02 - 2017

Bomb blast near Indian consulate in Jalalabad after Mazar-i-Sharif siege ends

A small bomb exploded near the Indian consulate in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Tuesday, authorities said, after a series of attacks on Indian installations in the region. The blast, which happened the morning after a gun and bomb siege (...)

JALALABAD MAZAR I SHARIF The Saudi Gazette

06 - 01 - 2016

Afghan forces besiege insurgents near Indian consulate in Afghanistan

Afghan special forces fought with insurgents barricaded in a house near the Indian consulate in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif on Monday after an overnight attack that coincided with an assault on an Indian air base near the border with (...)

MAZAR I SHARIF The Saudi Gazette

05 - 01 - 2016

German defence minister's message in Afghanistan: «We're staying»

i-Sharif, Afghanistan, Safar 24, 1437, Dec 6, 2015, SPA -- German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen paid a traditional holiday visit to German troops in northern Afghanistan on Sunday, a trip that comes on the heel's of Berlin's recent decision (...)

Mazar Saudi Press Agency

06 - 12 - 2015

German Chancellor Merkel visits German peacekeeping troops in Afghanistan

e Sharif, Afghanistan, Jumada II 30, 1434, May 10, 2013, SPA -- In a surprise visit, German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday flew in to northern Afghanistan, where she inspected the situations of her nation's troops stationed in the northern part (...)

Mazar Saudi Press Agency

10 - 05 - 2013

German Defence Minister Starts Afghanistan Visit

e Sharif, Afghanistan, Dhu-AlHijjah 27, 1433, Nov 12, 2012, SPA - German Defence Minister Thomas de Maiziere arrived today in northern Afghanistan. The Minister's plane landed early Monday at the German military headquarters in Mazar-e Sharif (...)

Mazar Saudi Press Agency

12 - 11 - 2012

German Chancellor Merkel Visits Afghanistan

e Sharif, Afghanistan, Rabi'II 19, 1433, Mar 12, 2012, SPA - German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived in Afghanistan Monday on an unannounced trip to visit German troops. She was to meet soldiers at a base in Mazar-e Sharif, the capital of Balkh (...)

Mazar Saudi Press Agency

12 - 03 - 2012

German Defence Minister Visits Afghanistan

e Sharif, Afghanistan, Muharram 07, 1432, Dec 13, 2010, SPA -- German Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg said Monday that the fighting situation in Afghanistan was "longer and harder" than in previous winters. However, progress could be (...)

Mazar Saudi Press Agency

13 - 12 - 2010

German defence minister visits Afghanistan

i-Sharif, Afghanistan, Ramadan 18, 1431 / Aug. 28, 2010, SPA -- German Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg and the speaker of the German parliament, Norbert Lammert, arrived Saturday in Afghanistan on a visit that was kept secret in (...)

Mazar Saudi Press Agency

28 - 08 - 2010

‘Taleban seize 16 people in Afghan north'

Taleban insurgents have abducted 16 people in two separate incidents in northern Afghanistan, a region that has been long seen as relatively safe, officials said Tuesday. Ousted from power in a US-led invasion in 2001 but still strong in southern (...)

MAZAR I SHARIF The Saudi Gazette

14 - 10 - 2009

Quake rattles Afghanistan, no casualties

I-SHARIF, Afghanistan, Sept 6, SPA -- An earthquake measuring 5.6 hit Afghanistan's Hindu Kush region on Saturday, but caused no casualties, reuters quoted a provincial official as saying. The quake, centred 275 km (170 miles) northeast of (...)

MAZAR Saudi Press Agency

06 - 09 - 2008

Afghans protest Danish cartoons, Koran film

I-SHARIF, Afghanistan, March 2, SPA -- About 1,000 Afghans, incensed by the republication of offensive Prophet Mohammad's caricatures in a Danish paper, marched in a northern city on Sunday demanding withdrawal of Danish and Dutch troops from (...)

MAZAR Saudi Press Agency

02 - 03 - 2008

Afghan bomb kills 3 German troops

I-SHARIF, Afghanistan (SPA) -- Three German soldiers and four civilians were killed in a suicide bombing on Saturday in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz, Afghan security officials said. The bomber struck as the soldiers patrolled the city of (...)

MAZAR Saudi Press Agency

19 - 05 - 2007

German Tornados begin operations in Afghanistan

e Sharif, Afghanistan, April 15, SPA -- German reconnaissance Tornado jets began a controversial mission in Afghanistan Sunday, flying their first mission in support of NATO-led forces fighting the Taliban in the south of the country. German (...)

Mazar Saudi Press Agency

15 - 04 - 2007