A German man has reportedly been killed in a US drone attack in the border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Although a convert to Islam, he was said to be in contact with German security officials.
Germany's first female defence minister visited troops in Afghanistan on Sunday and appealed for President Hamid Karzai to sign a troubled deal to allow some foreign forces to stay in the country after 2014.
An interpreter who worked for British troops in Afghanistan for five years has won asylum in Germany after the UK government said it could not give him refuge. He told The Local he felt abandoned by the British.
The German government said on Tuesday that it will allow 150 Afghan interpreters who worked for the Bundeswehr to leave Kundus and live in Germany, after receiving Taliban death threats.
Germany's foreign ministry said on Thursday that its embassy in Afghanistan was shut but declined to comment on a media report it had been closed in response to a "serious" security threat.
Germany on Sunday handed over command of its northern Kunduz camp to Afghan security forces, a milestone in the drawdown from a more than decade-long military deployment.
An attack on Monday at against German soldiers stationed in Afghanistan has left five injured. Terrorists reportedly used explosives and bazookas to target the group, who were near the camp in the Kunduz Province.
Found passed out in ditches, driving service vehicles half-cut or firing weapons by accident under the influence. A German army camp in Afghanistan is asking what to do with its drunken soldiers.
A group of translators and other employees of the German army in Afghanistan have threatened to blockade the army camp if they are not offered asylum in Germany when the Bundeswehr withdraws.
A German soldier training for his imminent deployment to Afghanistan was killed over the weekend during training manoeuvres after he was crushed by an amoured vehicle.
Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Defence Minister Thomas de Maiziere have arrived in Afghanistan for a surprise visit, a German government spokesman said early Friday.
A German soldier from the KSK elite military unit was killed and another wounded in an attack by insurgents in northern Afghanistan on Saturday. It's the first time a member of the special forces anti-terror KSK unit has been killed.
Germany on Thursday offered to keep 600-800 troops in Afghanistan for two years from 2015, after the end of NATO combat operations there, to help train and advise the national army in its battle against the Taliban.
Inglourious Basterds star Til Schweiger - one of Germany's best-known actors - has seen his girlfriend's car set on fire and paint thrown at his house in an attack claimed by people who said his latest film glorified the German army in Afghanistan.
Germany's defence minister made a surprise visit to nearly 5,000 of his country's troops in Afghanistan on Tuesday. He flew directly there in a civilian aircraft for the first time, indicating improved conditions in the region.
Families of victims of a deadly air strike in Afghanistan that killed more than 90 people in 2009 have filed a multimillion-dollar class-action lawsuit against Germany, a lawyer said Friday.
German Defence Minister Thomas de Maizière arrived in Afghanistan for a surprise visit on Monday - travelling for the first time on a direct flight without military protection, in what he said was a sign of progress.
A German man who ran away to join the Taliban told a court this week how he had a horrible time in the Pakistani borderlands and was happy to be back home – even though he now faces a prison term.
The German intelligence agency BND thinks the situation in Afghanistan is much more serious than the government has portrayed it, and is expecting an increase in attacks by Afghan soldiers on western troops.
The German officer who ordered an air strike that killed more than 100 Afghan civilians and cost the jobs of the defence minister, the head of the army and a senior state secretary, is to be promoted to general next year.
Hundreds of Afghans who have been working for German police officers and soldiers in Afghanistan must be offered the chance to come to Germany when the mission ends in 2014, a government politician says.
The German federal prosecutor's office has opened a probe into the 2010 death of a German national in a drone strike in a Pakistan tribal district bordering Afghanistan, a spokesman said Thursday.
A German woman and her Canadian partner set off last week to help bring a circus to children in Afghanistan. They will be braving the Taliban by taking a rickshaw on one of the world's most dangerous road trips.
