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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KABUL, Feb.  14 (Xinhua) — The U.S.-led Coalition forces have killed several insurgents and detained nine armed individuals in southern Afghan provinces of Uruzgan and Zabul during two separate operations, the military said Thursday.
The forces using aerial-delivered munitions attacked a group of insurgents on motorcycles in Tarin Kot district of Uruzgan province Wednesday, killing “a [...]

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KABUL, Feb 4 (KUNA) — A senior Taliban commander escaped an airstrike that killed 10 people, including a woman, by foreign troops in western Afghanistan, police said on Monday.
Separately, the Afghan police claimed they had killed nine Taliban militants in Deh Rawod district of the southern Uruzgan province of the country Sunday night.
The airstrike was [...]

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KABUL, Jan 28 (KUNA) — Afghan police have reported eliminating eight insurgents during a clash in the volatile southern region where the hunt by security agencies have entered the second day to recover a female American aid worker kidnapped by unidentified armed men on Saturday. The clash with militants took place in the restive southern [...]

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KABUL, Jan 7 (KUNA) — Two civilians and two foreign soldiers were killed in fresh violence in Afghanistan, officials said on Monday.
The civilians, including a child, were found dead in a compound following clashes between Taliban and NATO forces in the southern province of Uruzgan.
The NATO statement said they were fired upon from a compound [...]

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KABUL, Dec 17 (KUNA) — A roadside bomb killed five members of a family in southern Afghanistan, police and residents said on Monday.
Three of those who perished in the explosion were children while the other two were grown-up, a man and a woman. The bomb was fitted to a bicycle parked on the roadside in [...]

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SYDNEY, Nov 23 (KUNA) — An Australian commando has been killed during an encounter with the Taliban in Afghanistan, it was announced here Friday.
Defense Force Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston confirmed 26-year-old Private Luke Worsley was shot dead 10 kilometers east of Tarin Kowt in Oruzgan Province earlier today.
No other Australian soldiers were injured, he [...]

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KABUL, Nov 21 (KUNA) — Afghan officials on Wednesday said national regular forces killed dozens of Taliban militants during a joint ground and air operation with the foreign troops in southern Afghanistan.
The militants were eliminated in a joint operation in the southern province of Uruzgan’s Char Chino and Deh Rahod districts, said Brigadier General Juma [...]

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