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As of October 3, 2019, 59 German soldiers and 3 policemen died in Afghanistan, raising the death toll to 62, with 39 being hostile. Among them are the first German reservists to fall in hostile actions and the first German policemen to die in deployment abroad since World War II. In addition to these fatalities, 245 German soldiers and 4 police ...
Georgia deployed 174 troops to Afghanistan, and deployed 1,900 peacekeepers in 2010 for peacekeeping and counter-terrorism operations. A total of 750–800 soldiers are being deployed since 2010, making Georgia the highest net contributor per capita to the coalition forces. [12] [13]
This is a list of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) installations in Afghanistan used during the War in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2021. This list encompasses installations used by the International Security Assistance Force from 2001 to 2014 and then by the Resolute Support Mission after 2014. Included are airbases, forward operating ...
3 wounded. 12 killed. 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 ...
Battle of Qala-i-Jangi. 25 November 2001. 1 December 2001. Qala-i-Jangi District. Battle: It began with the uprising of Taliban prisoners held at Qala-i-Jangi fortress and escalated into one of the bloodiest engagements of the war in Afghanistan. Battle of Takur Ghar. 4 March 2002. 5 March 2002. The peak of Takur Ghar.
W. Volker Wieker. Categories: German military personnel by war. Military personnel of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) German military personnel of the Bundeswehr. 21st-century German military personnel. Afghanistan–Germany military relations. German expatriates in Afghanistan.
German Army soldiers in Afghanistan in front of Dingo infantry mobility vehicles, 2009. The role of the Bundeswehr is described in the Constitution of Germany (Art. 87a) as absolutely defensive only. Its only active role before 1990 was the Katastropheneinsatz (disaster control).
In 2010, IED attacks in Afghanistan wounded 3,366 U.S. soldiers, which is nearly 60% of the total IED-wounded since the start of the war. [9] Of the 711 foreign soldiers killed in 2010, 630 were killed in action. 368 of those were killed by IEDs, which is around 36% of the total IED-killed since the start of the war to date. [1]