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Abdul Ahad Momand (Pashto: عبدالاحد مومند; born 1959) is an Afghan-German and former Afghan Air Force aviator who became the first, and currently only, Afghan astronaut to journey to outer space. [4] He became one of Soyuz TM-6 crew members and spent nine days aboard the Mir space station in 1988 as an Interkosmos research ...
February 11 - An Afghan policeman shot dead four colleagues and injured seven more in Kandahar Province. [21] February 14 - The Nangarhar Offensive began. [22] [23] February 17 - Men who appeared to be from the Afghan army raided a health clinic belonging to the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (SCA) in Tangi Saidan in Wardak Province, killing ...
In Hamburg, on 20 January 2016 the police published photos of two suspects of sexual assaults on New Year's Eve, [59] which led to the recognition of one of them - a 29-year-old male migrant from Afghanistan - the next day by a guard in a refugee center, and the suspect's arrest.
The Taliban regained power in Afghanistan in 2021, 20 years after a US-led invasion toppled their regime in the fallout of the 9/11 attacks in New York, but its government has not been formally ...
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An Afghan soldier who fled the Taliban and traveled through nearly a dozen countries before being arrested at the Texas-Mexico border and detained for months has been granted asylum, allowing him ...
In April 2016, the board reconvened to clarify that Golsteyn "failed in his duties to own all the circumstances of the incident in its entirety," specifying that "he shot an Afghan . . . and then took steps to cover it up," "omitted key facts in his reporting," "failed to report all the facts officially and for the record over an extended ...
After spending a record-breaking 340 days in space, Scott Kelly arrived safely back on Earth, packed inside a snug Soyuz capsule.