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German forces are engaged in an offensive operation in the area W of PRT Kunduz since October 31. This operation is conducted with the ANA and other ISAF forces. Today one German soldier was lightly wounded in an engagement with enemy forces, but the trooper could remain with his unit 1 WIA: 2010-11-21 Kunduz Hostile IED
Contingency: The codename for all British combat operations in Afghanistan from the start of the war in 2001 until 2002 Operation Vigilance: 15 April 2005: April 2005: Wardak Province: Counterinsurgency and Humanitarian: Targeted three individuals that coalition forces were trying to kill or capture, and included humanitarian aid drops in ...
Operation Halmazag (Dari for "lightning") was an offensive operation by ISAF German-led troops in close cooperation with the Afghan security forces in the province of Kunduz, from 31 October to 4 November 2010, with the aim of building a permanent outpost near the village of Quatliam in the Char Dara district, south-west of Kunduz.
The Norwegian Camp Nidaros within Camp Marmal in 2006. Germany began building the site on 3 November 2005 and became operational on 2 August 2006. [1]In June 2021, the base was handed over to the Afghan Armed Forces and the last German troops left Afghanistan.
The last U.S. troops left Afghanistan on Aug. 30, 2021. Three years later, the Taliban's return to power has allowed al Qaeda and other terrorist groups to regain a presence in the country, and ...
Since April 2009, the German forces in northern Afghanistan had been under pressure from the Taliban and the Islamic Jihad Union.The attack on the German forces after the visit of chancellor Angela Merkel on April 7, 2009, and the following months showed that the Taliban and their allies exerted heavy pressure to try to force the German troops out of Afghanistan, since involvement in the ...
Kunduz province, the site of the airstrike, was largely peaceful until Taliban militants started infiltrating the area in 2009. [6] Critics blamed the Germans for allowing the infiltration of the north by the Taliban, although in fact there had been a Taliban presence in the area since the late 1990s and several major battles were fought against them in the area during the US/Northern Alliance ...
The Bundeswehr (German: [ˈbʊndəsˌveːɐ̯] ⓘ, literally Federal Defence) is the armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany.The Bundeswehr is divided into a military part (armed forces or Streitkräfte) and a civil part, the military part consisting of the German Army, German Navy, German Air Force, Joint Support Service, Joint Medical Service, and Cyber and Information Domain Service.