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Published time: 28 Apr, 2017 13:34Edited time: 28 Apr, 2017 13:40 A Royal Marine who spent three years in jail after killing an unarmed, wounded Afghan fighter on camera has been freed, a month after his sentence was reduced to manslaughter from murder. Former commando sergeant Alexander Blackman was released from jail in the early […]
Thomson Reuters BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany approved just under 48 percent of asylum applications from Afghan migrants in the first two months of 2017, down from close to 78 percent in 2015, the Passauer Neue Presse German newspaper reported on Sunday. The newspaper, citing a response from the German interior ministry to a parliamentary query […]
The German authorities are now verifying statements of thousands of Afghan refugees, who came to Germany and claimed to be former Taliban militants, the German Der Spiegel weekly reports, adding that criminal investigations have been launched in 70 cases. Since 2015, several thousands of refugees who came from Afghanistan admitted during interviews with representatives of […]
REUTERS/Anil Usyan MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan (Reuters) – As many 140 Afghan soldiers were killed on Friday by Taliban attackers apparently disguised in military uniforms in what would be the deadliest attack ever on an Afghan military base, officials said. One official in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, where the attack occurred, said on Saturday at least […]
Joe Raedle/Getty Images (Reuters) – U.S. agents unlawfully detained an Afghan family of five at Los Angeles International Airport and have been holding them for several days in California, according to legal papers filed in federal court in California by human rights lawyers. The father, mother and three small children were granted Special Immigrant Visas […]
A former interpreter with UK forces in Afghanistan who was blown up by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) has told the parliamentary Defence Committee about the dangers now faced by those who worked with occupation forces. Former ‘terp’ Rafi Hottak was wounded by an IED in 2007 while working with a British military unit and […]
Kabul, Afghanistan was rocked by a Taliban suicide attack Tuesday evening that has left dozens dead and as many as 80 people injured, according to reports. The Taliban attack came during rush hour as convoys of people were leaving the Afghan Parliament offices, where meetings regarding the national budget were being held. [See updates below.] […]
