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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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

15 - 04 - 2007
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