Ariana: Germany has pledged to admit 25,000 Afghans deemed most at risk following the Islamic Emirate if Afghanistan (IEA) takeover in Kabul from about 40,000 such people that European Union states are to accept, according to a letter by a senior EU official. Click here to read more (external link). Related EU countries agree to
Ariana: The UAE was one of only a few country’s that recognized the IEA government in the 1990s, along with Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Although the UAE has reopened its embassy in Kabul, the Gulf nation is also providing refuge to former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani. Click here to read more (external link). Related German
By RFE/RL Gandhara November 19, 2021 Germany has sent high-ranking diplomats to Kabul to meet with the Taliban for the first time since the militia group took power in Afghanistan. The German Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the country’s special representative for Afghanistan, Jasper Wieck, and ambassador-designate Markus Potzel met on November 18 with high-ranking officials
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 13, 2021 Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have warned U.S. and European envoys that continuing to use sanctions as a means to put pressure on the militant group would trigger a new wave of economic refugees. The acting foreign minister of the Taliban government, Amir Khan Muttaqi, told Western diplomats at talks
Ayaz Gul VOA News August 23, 2021 ISLAMABAD – Germany’s military reported Monday a firefight erupted outside the north gate at Kabul’s airport, with unknown attackers killing one Afghan security officer dead and wounding three others. The German military said its forces and those from the United States were involved in the battle. The airport
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 22, 2021 Tens of thousands of Afghans again jammed the roads leading to Kabul’s airport, as Taliban fighters fired weapons in the air and sought to control the crowds trying to flee the country. As the Taliban tried to consolidate its control over Kabul and establish law and order, the
The Hill: German foreign minister Heiko Maas told broadcaster ZDF that the country would not provide foreign aid if the Taliban captured Afghanistan and if the country enacts Sharia law or Islamic religious law. “We provide 430 million euros [$505 million] every year, we will not give another cent if the Taliban takes over the
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 6, 2021 Germany has granted 2,400 visas so far to Afghan employees who assisted German forces in Afghanistan and are now seeking protection as the Taliban takes control of much of the country, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said in Berlin. The last contingent of German soldiers left Afghanistan on June
Radio Free Afghanistan June 9, 2021 A group of 42 rejected asylum seekers have reportedly arrived in Kabul after being deported from Germany. The chartered flight landed in the Afghan capital at 7:48 a.m. local time on June 9, the German news agency dpa quoted an airport official as saying. The agency reported that the
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty April 21, 2021 Media reports say Germany is looking at a plan to bring forward the date for withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan to July 4. The German news agency dpa and France’s AFP quoted a Defense Ministry spokesman on April 21 as saying lawmakers were informed of the plan, and