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A 49-year-old sergeant major was found dead in his room at Camp Marmal. According to initial findings, the Bundeswehr assumed a natural cause of death. [38] [8] 1 dead: 2015-10-04 Germany Non-hostile Suicide A soldier who was involved in operations in Afghanistan committed suicide in Germany. [8] 1 dead
Denmark, a NATO member, sent 9,500 personnel to Afghanistan between January 2002 and 1 July 2013. They were mostly stationed in Helmand province as part of NATO's International Security and Assistance Force (ISAF). Denmark's first three deaths were the result of an accident during the disposal of a Soviet-era anti-aircraft missile in 2002.
His cause of death is still under investigation. [96] July 22, 2012 – Two Americans and one British NATO contractors were shot and killed in Afghanistan by an Afghan man dressed in an Afghan police uniform in a military training centre near the Herat Airport. [97]
In addition to the American service members, 168 Afghans were killed in the bombing as they tried to get on board evacuation flights out of the war-torn country.
DW was moving its Afghan radio service from Germany to Afghanistan. Struwe, a radio engineer and journalist, had been working for DW for five years. [4] He had just completed launching an international news office at Afghanistan's Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA), where he had also trained Afghan journalists.
Germany deported Afghan nationals to their homeland on Friday for the first time since August 2021 when the Taliban returned to power. Government spokesperson Steffen Hebestreit described the 28 ...
There have been many thousands of friendly fire incidents in recorded military history, accounting for an estimated 2% to 20% of all casualties in battle. [1] [2] The examples listed below illustrate their range and diversity, but this does not reflect increasing frequency.
At a Capitol Hill news conference, some family members of the 13 U.S. troops killed at the Kabul airport warn against the vice president being elected to the top job.