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A German woman was killed in Afghan Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday night in an attack by armed men. That has been announced by the Afghan Ministry of the Interior on Sunday.

US special units and Afghan troops have been deprived of 750 warriors of the Islamic state since Afghanistan in early March. That was announced by the US Army on Friday.

Islamic state is behind the attack on a state-owned office in the Afghan city of Jalalabad. The terrorist group claimed the responsibility for the attack in a statement published by Amaq press office on Wednesday. Fourteen people got injured.

Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel does not yet feel like sending additional German soldiers to Afghanistan. 'I do not think we should be the first to increase our capabilities,' she said Thursday after an interview with NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg in Berlin.

Pakistan and Afghanistan failed to resolve a border conflict with Google Maps. The neighbors have long been asking about the question of which side of the border two villages lay and hoped to solve the problem using the map site.

An Islamic scholar was blown up on Tuesday while teaching at an Afghan Koran School. Certainly six students were injured, told the Afghan news transmitter Tolonews. President Ashraf Ghani has condemned the 'inhuman' attack.

A 29-year-old Afghan who was arrested last weekend in the German state of Bavaria for the death of a 38-year-old Afghan woman probably acted from a religious motive. The police made it clear Wednesday that the conversion of women to Christianity 'is increasingly central to the research.'

A suicide attack near the US embassy in the Afghan capital Kabul has killed four deaths and 22 injured on Wednesday morning.

Taliban rebels committed a bomb attack on a US base in the Afghan eastern province of Khost on Monday. Local officials gave little details about the attack, coinciding with a visit to the capital city of Kabul of the US Secretary of Defense James Mattis.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has declared a day of national mourning after a massacre at a military base in Mazar-i-Sharif. There were certainly a hundred victims when Taliban riders in army uniforms penetrated the complex and opened the fire.

The Taliban riders on Friday set up a massacre in an Afghan army base, able to pass a checkpoint by pretending to carry wounded soldiers. According to a witness, they only opened the fire when they heard at a second security station that they had to hand in their weapons.

The Taliban attack on the basis of the Afghan army has probably demanded more victims than the authorities initially reported. An army spokeswoman reportedly wounded about fifty fifty and seventy, but on Saturday, Afghan army sources reported that the death toll was over the hundred.

An attack by the Taliban on a Afghan army led to the death of fifty deaths and more than 73 people injured on Friday. The militants stormed the base in the northern province of Balch, according to a spokesman for the Afghan army.

The airstrike took according to local authorities at least 94 IS members living with an American reuzenbom on a hideout of fighters of the Islamic State of Afghanistan. Among them were four commanders, as the governor of Nangarhar province announced Saturday through his spokesman.

Hundreds of refugees from Monday burnt camp in the northern French Grande-Synthe are missing. The governor of Nord-Pas de Calais has three halls where the affected people were accommodated closed Thursday, the Belgian NGO Humain reported Friday morning.

The Americans on Thursday for the first time used a MOAB. A military unit was called the 'mother of all bombs' fall over the Afghan province of Nangarhar. What is this bomb and what can cause it?

The colossal MOAB bomb has slain 36 militants Thursday in the United States dropped on IS-tunnels in eastern Afghanistan. It says the Afghan Ministry of Defense.

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.

The death toll from the attack of IS members has risen to the military hospital in the Afghan capital Kabul to 49. 76 people were injured, of whom ten Thursday in critical condition. Which has informed the Afghan Ministry of Health.

By an attack on a military hospital in the Afghan capital Kabul Wednesday least thirty deaths. The attack began early Wednesday morning and was carried out by armed men who were dressed as medical staff. Terror group Islamic State has claimed the attack.

At least five young children in an Austrian refugee camp in St. Pölten probably sexually assaulted by a seventeen year old boy from Yemen. Reported that the Austrian broadcaster ORF Friday. It comes to Afghan children aged six to ten years. The suspect was arrested on 9 February.

A leading commander of al Qaeda, Qari Saifullah Akhtar, was slain in an action by the Afghan intelligence service NDS. This also was an al Qaeda warrior to the NDS reported Sunday.

The ambassador of the United Arab Emirates in Afghanistan succumbed to the injuries he sustained in a bombing last month in the Afghan city of Kandahar. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Emirates made on Wednesday, according to Arab media.

Certainly eighteen civilians last week killed in air strikes in the Afghan province of Helmand. Mainly involves women and children, concluded researchers from the United Nations.

Least seven people have been killed by a suicide bomber at a bank in the Afghan city of Lashkar Gah. The bomber left his car, according to the authorities explode next to a vehicle of the Afghan army.

Air strikes by the United States on Taliban fighters in the Afghan province of Helmand have caused many civilian casualties. So say the Afghan authorities Friday. The air strikes were in the night from Thursday to Friday.

The US commander in Afghanistan, Gen. John Nicholson, has asked Thursday for additional several thousand foreign troops. Nicholson said in Washington that the stalemate in the fighting with the extremist Taliban can only be broken with more troops.

At least six members of the International Red Cross in Afghanistan were killed Wednesday. The murder was probably committed by terrorists of the Islamic State, say the authorities.

At least five people have been slain Tuesday by a car bomb at the Supreme Court in the center of the Afghan capital Kabul. It reports Reuters. There were at least 17 people injured.

In the Pakistani city of Karachi on Monday shot dead an Afghan diplomat. A security guard was arrested as a suspect, the police reported.