Once again, the Conservatives have been trying to get ' Obamacare ' down. Republicans in the Senate of the United States passed a bill Thursday that the Health Insurance Act should be abolished. However, the efforts are for nothing, as President Barack Obama already has promised to veto the proposal.
A former Russian army officer who had joined the Afghan Taliban battle group, Irek Hamidullin, has received a life sentence in the US. Hamidullin was sentenced to life for his role in attacks on US and Afghan troops in Afghanistan in 2009, reported the US Department of Justice.
The Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour has fallen fatally wounded during an exchange of fire with other extremists. Which have Pakistani Taliban Thursday.
Two Afghan refugees in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern attacked by four men. The perpetrators were asylum seekers in the town of Eggesin ambushed. Then they dragged them into the ground and trampled on them. The victims (29 and 26) had with head injuries to the hospital, but not seriously injured.
In the German university town of Konstanz is Monday night came in a reception center for refugees in a mass brawl. Initially had an Albanian and Afghan quarrel with each other, but later interfered many more people with it. Eventually Around forty foreigners involved in the violence.
The Embassy of the United States in Kabul on Monday warned on Twitter for " heavy attack " in the Afghan capital. That attack would take place within 48 hours.
At least six children have drowned Friday when their boat sank during the risky crossing from Turkey to Greece. It involves two separate incidents.
Three months after the drama with 71 stitched refugees in a truck on the Hungarian- Austrian border, the researchers in Austria have completed their work. According to the police bodies 69 have been identified.
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.
Afghan security forces are trying Wednesday to rescue eighteen people on Tuesday were taken hostage by the Taliban. That happened when the helicopter in which they were had to make an emergency landing in an area where the Taliban have control, reported the Afghan Ministry of Defence. During the attack on the helicopter two soldiers and a crew are slain.
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.
At least 65 Afghan government soldiers with weapons and already defected to the Taliban. The soldiers unexpectedly left their position in the Sang Inge Bid, according to a statement Saturday from the governor of Helmand province Saturday.
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.
(Turkey) - Hundreds of war refugees and fortune seekers wait in an abandoned holiday resort on their highly-paid cruise to Europe. The sea is too dangerous, that is why they stay longer on the huge park just off the Turkish resort CESNE.
Too many Afghans come to Germany as an asylum seeker. That must be a lot less. That said German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière on Wednesday. " Afghanistan is here in second place with countries of origin. This is unacceptable," De Maizière.
The production of opium in Afghanistan this year is half lower than in 2014, according to A report from the UN agency for drugs and crime (UNODC) . In the country this year is expected to be 3300 tonnes of opium produced against 6400 tons last year. Opium, which is extracted from poppy, is a raw material for heroin.
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.
Islamic militants from Afghanistan have slain Tuesday seven Pakistani soldiers. Pakistan says the attack is increasing the pressure on the strained relations between the neighbors.
The death toll from the massive earthquake Monday in northeastern Afghanistan creeping towards 300. Most people were killed in Pakistan so far : 228. In Afghanistan already killed more than fifty people.
The earthquake that struck Monday the rugged border area between Afghanistan and Pakistan was the strongest in 66 years. The death toll so far amounts to about 180. They were mainly on the Pakistani side of the border. The earthquake with a magnitude of 7.5 was felt from Kabul to Islamabad and New Delhi.
Dozens of Taliban fighters Saturday fleeing government troops stranded on an island in the Amu Darya river, on the border between Afghanistan and Turkmenistan. According to the Afghan government, the fighters can not move. The Taliban denies this.
Refugees from Turkey who try one of the Greek islands in the Aegean reach, be attacked by masked men in speedboats. Trying to make the boats with refugees in many ways unusable.
The female governor of the Afghan province of Ghor has had several death threats from armed commanders of the army, " reports Radio Libery / Free Europe .
The Bundeswehr will remain longer than planned in Afghanistan. That the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin Friday.
A refugee is late Thursday in Bulgaria deceased after he was hit by a bullet from a border guard. Afghan migrant attempted with a group of compatriots illegally stabbing the Turkish - Bulgarian border. When they were stopped , they resist , reported the Bulgarian Interior Ministry on Friday . "One of the border guards fired warning shots and he explained that a bullet ricocheted and hit the migrant , who later died ," said a senior government official told a national radio station.
The USA keep their troops in Afghanistan longer. The major part of 2016, the strength is maintained at 9800 people. Then the number of troops will be reduced gradually. President Obama makes the decision Thursday to the world.
In the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday, a bomb attack perpetrated on a convoy of foreign troops . A spokesman for the Interior Ministry there are victims , but it is unknown yet how much.
The United States will pay compensation to the families of the victims who died in the bombing of a hospital of Doctors without Borders ( MSF) in the Afghan city of Kunduz. That the US Department of Defense announced Saturday . The US has also promised that they will pay for the reconstruction of the hospital.
US President Barack Obama has personally apologized to MSF for the bloody raid on a hospital of that organization in the Afghan city of Kunduz. That the White House on Wednesday. Obama telephoned the head of MSF, Joanne Liu.
Aid organization Doctors Without Borders wants an international Swiss-based body examines the US attack on the MSF hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz. It is founded in the 1991 International Humanitarian Fact -Finding Commission ( IHFFC ), stands in a statement distributed Wednesday by MSF . It would be the first mission of this committee that sits in Bern .
