Germany's Interior Minister told Afghanistan on Tuesday that Germany’s security support to the country would only continue if the influx of Afghan refugees to Germany stopped.
Germany registered 1.1 million asylum seekers in 2015, the interior ministry said Wednesday, with refugees from war-torn Syria making up almost 40 percent of arrivals.
A convoy carrying a German general was hit in a suicide car-bomb attack near Kabul airport on Monday, the news site Spiegel Online reported, adding that two soldiers were slightly hurt.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Afghanistan's visiting President Ashraf Ghani agreed Wednesday to work jointly for stability in the South Asian country and to reduce illegal migration.
Germany has launched a campaign in Afghanistan to tell its nationals to think carefully before embarking on the tough journey to seek asylum in Europe, the foreign ministry said on Monday.
A female German aid worker who was kidnapped in Afghanistan in August has been released and is in good health, said German development organisation GIZ on Saturday.
Gunmen abducted a German female aid worker in Kabul in broad daylight on Monday, officials said, highlighting the growing risk to humanitarian workers in war-battered Afghanistan.
The colonel who ordered an air strike on Kunduz, Afghanistan in 2009 killing 102 people, will not be taken to court after the father of two children lost in the attack had his claim rejected in court on Friday.
An employee of the German International Development Agency (GIZ) has been released from captivity in northern Afghanistan after being taken prisoner by the Taliban six weeks ago.
With six weeks left of the German military (Bundeswehr) deployment to Afghanistan, the government is already planning the training mission which will follow.
Chancellor Angela Merkel wants German troops to stay in Afghanistan beyond 2016, fearing Afghan security forces will not be ready to take over by then, according to a report on Sunday.
A German aid worker who was taken hostage by masked gunmen in Pakistan over two years ago was released in neighbouring Afghanistan this week, Berlin said on Friday.
One of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s VIP jets is set to be used to ferry soldiers home who are stuck in Afghanistan, due to ongoing problems with the German military’s transport planes.
After more than 3,400 foreign troops died in Afghanistan, 54 of them German, the international community in 2014 withdraws its combat forces to end a 13-year mission. Aid worker and ex-soldier Matthias Kock reflects on lessons learned and where the country is headed.
UPDATE: A German general was seriously wounded on Tuesday and a US Army general killed when an Afghan soldier opened fire at a British-run military academy outside the Afghanistan capital, Kabul.
A former Afghan police commander has been sentenced to death in Kabul for the killing of German war reporter and photographer Anja Niedringhaus in April this year.
Bowe Bergdahl, the US soldier who went missing in Afghanistan in 2009 and was recently traded for five Taliban prisoners, flew on Friday from Germany to the United States to face potential desertion charges. But what does Germany make of the case?
Does Germany pull its weight in international affairs? The Local spoke with a military analyst to discuss what German soldiers are doing abroad and why the government is so reluctant to engage its troops in active combat.
A journalist who was badly injured when her German colleague was shot dead by a policeman in Afghanistan has been flown to Germany for further medical treatment, the Associated Press said on Tuesday.
Germany's foreign minister arrived on Sunday in Afghanistan on an unannounced visit and urged its president to sign a long-delayed security pact with the United States.
Insurgent violence in the area of Afghanistan where German soldiers have been stationed increased dramatically in 2013, just as the Bundeswehr prepares to leave. Yet the region is seen as calmer than elsewhere in the country.
