Logar, Afghanistan/Prague, Sept 22 (CTK) - Three Czech soldiers from the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) were injured in a missile attack against their base in the Logar province in Afghanistan during the night, Czech chief of staff Vlastimil Picek announced Monday. 
“Three missiles were shot at the Shank base where the Czech soldiers from the PRT [...]

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Logar, Afghanistan/Prague, Sept 7 (CTK) - The implementation of six development projects selected by the Czech PRT (Provincial Reconstruction Team) in the eastern province of Logar will cost over 16 million crowns, PRT spokeswoman Karla Stepankova told CTK Sunday. 
The repair of two girls’ schools and the construction of a training centre for the local police [...]

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A Czech military vehicle has been attacked in Afghanistan, but none of the three soldiers on board were seriously injured, a Defence Ministry spokesperson said on Wednesday evening.  The Czechs were returning from a patrol when their vehicle was struck by a bomb in the country’s Logar province.  This year has been one of the [...]

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Prague, July 27 (CTK) - The Czech military Sunday started the probably last rotation of the personnel of the field hospital in Kabul, contingent member Vlastimil Schlinger told CTK. 
In the morning, the first part of the fifth contingent were flown from the Prague-Kbely airfield to Kabul, Schlinger said.
The military health personnel is scheduled to stay [...]

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Kabul/Prague, July 2 (CTK) - The first Czech military contingent made up of soldiers from the chemical warfare unit from Liberec, north Bohemia, has started to operate in the Afghan Uruzgan Province, contingent spokeswoman Zdenka Kosvancova told CTK Wednesday. 
Their main task will be to protect and defend the Dutch Camp Hadrian military base. On July [...]

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Prague, June 9 (CTK) - The Czech Republic Monday sent the first members of a contingent to Afghanistan that will protect the Dutch military base in the province Uruzgan.Along with them, a one-year-old boy and a six-year-old Afghan girl that underwent heart surgeries within the humanitarian programme Medevac were flown to Afghanistan.
The Czech unit in [...]

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Prague, May 4 (CTK) - The three Czech soldiers who were wounded in a bomb explosion in Afghanistan on Wednesday were released from hospital on Saturday night, but the condition of the fourth one is still very serious, general staff spokeswoman Jana Ruzickova told CTK Sunday.The injured soldiers and the body of their dead colleague [...]

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Prague/Logar (Afghanistan), March 19 (CTK) - The Czech Republic Wednesday officially started the activities of its own reconstruction team (PRT) in the Afghan province of Logar, Czech Chief of Staff Vlastimil Picek told CTK.The ceremony was attended by Picek and Deputy Defence Minister Martin Bartak.
Overall, about 200 Czech soldiers plus civilian farming, construction and hydrology [...]

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Prague, March 4 (CTK) - The first civilian experts who are members of the Czech Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in the Afghan province of Logar will leave together with a group of soldiers for Afghanistan on Thursday, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.The first group of about 100 soldiers left for Logar in February.
The Czech team [...]

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Sternberk, North Moravia, Feb 28 (CTK) - Four infantry combat vehicles (BVPs), painted in special desert sand colour, left the military equipment repair company VOP in Sternberk Thursday to serve in the Czech mission in Afghanistan.The BVPs will be transported to the Afghan province of Logar by a special military plane from the Brno airport, [...]

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