German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said earlier in April that Germany has a “deep obligation” not to leave behind unprotected locals who helped its forces at risk to themselves.
The country’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Rainer Breul said quoted by AP that 2,400 German visas were granted in recent weeks for local employees and their relatives.
He acknowledged that procedures have been complicated by the military...
Taliban last night stormed a security base in Chesht-i-Sharif district of western Herat province, killing 16 army soldiers, Ala Mohammad Hamdard, Battalion commander for the protection of Salma Dam—now known as Afghan-India Friendship Dam—spoke with TKG on Monday.
Clashes between government forces and the Taliban inflicted heavy casualties to the insurgents too, according to Mr. Hamdard, who said as many as 17 Taliban fighters...
Afghan forces on Sunday night evacuated Nasi and Maimi districts of Badakhshan province, a security source told TKG.
Nearly a hundred government defense and security forces have fled to Tajikistan which sits on Afghanistan's northeastern border, lying adjacent to the Afghan provinces of Badakhshan, Takhar, Kunduz, and Balkh.
Tajikistan state news agency, Khovar, has reported that as many as 1,037 Afghan forces fled to Tajikistan...
Abdul Baqi Arez, police chief of Lashkarhah city’s PD1, said the suicide attackers were set to detonate their explosives on the PD1 headquarters.
Their explosive vests went off, killing all the tree attackers, he said.
The incident took place last night.
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Philippine security forces searched among coconut trees on a remote southern island Monday for the flight data boxes of an aircraft that crashed and killed 50 people in one of the country's worst military air disasters.
The Hercules C-130 transport plane was carrying 96 people, most of them recent army graduates, when it overshot the runway while trying to land in sunny weather on...
The embassy said in a Twitter thread on Sunday that the United States will continue to have a robust diplomatic presence in Kabul and while it is constantly planning for contingencies and how to mitigate risks to U.S. citizens and programs.
“We are aware of security challenges to operating in Afghanistan, and we will adjust our presence as necessary to address these challenges,” it...
Fraidoon Khwazoon, spokesman for Afghanistan’s High Council for National Reconciliation, which oversees government talks with the Taliban, said the government negotiation team is ready to resume and continue peace talks while the Taliban has given the priority to war and violence.
The Afghan government is not willing in escalation of violence and insists to continue the talks with the Taliban, he said.
Dialogue is the...
Mansoor Ahmad, secretary of Kandahar’s governor, was killed Sunday after a sticky bomb targeting him went off around 2:05pm local time.
The provincial police confirmed the incident which took place near the fourteenth police district of Kandahar city.
There was no claim of responsibility for the attack.
Afghan officials blame Taliban for most of the bombings while the armed group denies.
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A suicide bomber on Saturday night wanted to detonate his explosive-laden car on Afghan forces in Nahr-i-Siraj district of Helmand province, read a ministry’s statement.
The vehicle was eliminated by Afghan Air Force before hitting the target, according to the statement.
The provincial police chief has meanwhile said that as many as 20 Taliban fighters have been killed and eight others wounded in Afghan forces...
Armed robbers late on Saturday robbed and then fled an area in Herat city’s PD5, read a statement by provincial police chief.
According to the statement, two robbers were killed and another wounded during police chase that triggered armed clashes.
The robbers were involved in many cases of armed theft, it added.
Police has seized a motorbike from the robbers....
