Taliban militants have kidnapped dozens of people who were on their way in three buses in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz. The local authorities have announced this on Monday.
By an air raid on a religious ceremony, at least 36 deaths in the Afghan province of Kunduz last month. Most victims are children, reports UNAM UNAMA. According to the Afghan government, the attack was directed, among other things, against high-ranking Taliban leaders.
A gruesome new tactic. Taliban fighters hid a bomb in the clothes and cloths wrapped around a four-month-old baby. The goal was an explosion in a strategic place in Kunduz, with the girl as 'additional damage'.
The asylum application of 106-year-old Afghan Bibihal Uzbeki, 'the oldest refugee in the world', has been rejected. The Kunduz woman laid down a journey of thousands of kilometers two years ago to finally seek asylum in Sweden.
Playing with a mortar shell has four Afghan children killed. Seven other children were injured. A police chief said Tuesday that the incident took place in a village in Char Dara district in the northern province of Kunduz.
While fighting against the Taliban in the Afghan province of Kunduz last year 33 people died. The US military reported that Thursday after investigation. 'I regret the loss of innocent lives profoundly,' the US commander responded in Afghanistan, Gen. John Nicholson.
The United Nations launch an investigation into an air strike which the US has carried out this week in Kunduz Province in Afghanistan. In addition, more than thirty civilians were killed. This has informed the international organization Sunday.
Two American soldiers were killed Thursday in Afghanistan. Two other soldiers were wounded. This was announced by the US forces in Afghanistan Thursday.
The population of Kunduz fled the Afghan city rapidly. A week after the Taliban attacked the city from different sides and invaded, all 24,000 inhabitants beaten on the run.
The United Nations expect a large flow of refugees leaving the Afghan city of Kunduz. In recent days smote 10,000 civilians fleeing the violence that has flared in the city.
Afghan troops fighting in Kunduz in early Tuesday morning with the Taliban. The Taliban withdrew Sunday the Afghan city in, exactly a year after they managed to take the city for a short period. Afghan troops trying to get out of town again.
The Taliban on Sunday invaded the Afghan city of Kunduz. According to local police, the Taliban fighters attacked the city from four directions and even managed them to enter the city. The local police units trying to reduce the Taliban.
The Taliban have been made after days of heavy fighting continued gains in northern Afghanistan. Taliban fighters captured Saturday the Khanabad district of Kunduz province. In other districts are still heavy fighting going on.
Most of Tuesday by the Taliban in Afghanistan kidnapped travelers are free. Tribal elders had negotiated the release of 23 of the 25 hostages, said a spokesman for the governor Wednesday. The other two will 'hopefully soon be released.'
The radical Islamic Taliban on Tuesday in the southern Afghan province of Helmand stopped a bus and a number of trucks and 48 people taken hostage. The incident occurred in the early morning in the district Gereschk.
The radical Islamic Taliban in the northwestern province of Sar-e Pul Afghanistan seventeen people kidnapped from a minibus. All hostages were civilians, said county spokesman Sabiullah Aman Thursday. It is not known where they are now.
Gunmen on Tuesday outside the northern city of Kunduz slain in Afghanistan nine bus passengers and 170 kidnapped. The authorities assume the attack is the work of the Taliban, said a provincial official.
Sixteen US soldiers have been disciplinary punished because of a bloody raid by the US Air Force at a hospital of Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Afghanistan in early October. According to US officials Friday will be announced during the presentation of the results of an investigation into the incident.
The Afghan army on Sunday again a series of attacks on the city of Kunduz repulsed by the Taliban. Dozens of extremists were slain, said sources with the authorities.
The Afghan province of Kunduz in the night from Friday to Saturday rocked by violent clashes between the security forces and the Taliban. The fighting took place in and around the provincial capital, said a police spokesman. At dawn, most militants were driven out. Details on deaths or injuries did not give the spokesman.
The Taliban have re-started the attack on the northern Afghan city of Kunduz. Hundreds of fighters draw since the start of the traditional spring offensive of the move to the city.
The Taliban are increasingly using children in combat in Afghanistan. Alone, at least a hundred children were recruited last year in Kunduz province and abused as a warrior. This is contained in a report by Human Rights Watch published Wednesday.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has the death toll from a bombing at an American hospital has been redefined in the Afghan Kunduz in early October to certain 42. Until now it was assumed 30 deaths. MSF comes after talks with survivors, patients and staff to the conclusion that the actual number is higher.
The US air raid on a hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz on October 3 was a tragic mistake. The cause was human error. That has research shown by the US military. The results were announced Wednesday.
Germany will send 130 additional troops to Afghanistan. The government decided Wednesday to send more troops, because the Afghan army did not succeed in the Taliban to be the boss. Islamic fighters took early October in the northern provincial capital of Kunduz.
During the air raid on the trauma hospital in the Afghan Kunduz place on October 3, members of the medical staff beheaded while the patients in bed burned. Others were shot as they fled the burning building. This is stated in the report of its own investigation by MSF which was released Thursday.
The Afghan authorities have 150 " dangerous prisoners " taken from the southern province of Helmand. This should prevent the extremist Taliban movement they give the opportunity to escape.
A Yemeni hospital being run by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), has been hit by a bomb. According to a statement from MSF Tuesday the bomb was dropped during an air raid led by the Saudi air force in the city Sadaa.
One by the US Air Force bombed hospital MSF in Afghanistan has again become corrupted. This time it is the fence around the hospital rammed by an army vehicle with American soldiers. It is a misunderstanding , said the US Department of Defense Monday .
The Bundeswehr will remain longer than planned in Afghanistan. That the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin Friday.
