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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 ...
Corbett, a longtime resident of Afghanistan before the U.S. withdrawal, was arrested while on a business trip to the country in August 2022, while Glezmann was arrested during a trip to ...
Afghan-born US citizen Mahmood Shah Habibi, 37, was working with an American telecommunications company when he was arrested by the Taliban in August 2022 after a drone strike killed al-Qaeda ...
THE HAGUE (Reuters) -The International Criminal Court prosecutor said on Thursday he had applied for arrest warrants for two Taliban leaders in Afghanistan including supreme spiritual leader ...
This is a list of astronauts of Muslim origin who have traveled to outer space. As of 2024, 18 of them (14 men and 4 women) have been in outer space. As of 2024, 18 of them (14 men and 4 women) have been in outer space.
Major General Mohammad Dawran (born 20 January 1954) is an Afghan former military officer as well as the former Commander of the Afghan Air Force, enlisting in 1973. [1] [2] [3] He was promoted to the post in 2005 by Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak and the Commander-in-Chief Bismillah Khan Mohammadi. [1]
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 ...
Major Mathew L. Golsteyn is a United States Army officer who served in the War in Afghanistan.He was charged with murder after the summary killing of an Afghan civilian detainee in Marjah, whom he claims was a bomb maker for the Taliban.