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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
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 ...
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 German military late on Tuesday concluded its withdrawal from Afghanistan after almost two decades, finishing Germany's deadliest military mission since World War 2. "Our last troops left ...
Clockwise from top-left: American troops in a firefight with Taliban insurgents in Kunar Province; An American F-15E Strike Eagle dropping 2000 pound JDAMs on a cave in eastern Afghanistan; an Afghan soldier surveying atop a Humvee; Afghan and American soldiers move through snow in Logar Province; victorious Taliban fighters after securing Kabul; an Afghan soldier surveying a valley in Parwan ...
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 ...
In sworn testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, top generals said Tuesday that they recommended keeping around 2,500 U.S. troops on the ground in Afghanistan.
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.