Tag: Kabul
World 26.08.21 | 20:14

At least 13 dead in two blasts outside Kabul airport

At least 13 people were killed in the attack at the airport in the Afghan capital Kabul – the site of an already fraught evacuation operation for people trying to flee Taliban-controlled Afghanistan – the Islamist group said on Thursday. At least 52 others were injured, the spokesman for the Taliban’s...

Macedonia 23.08.21 | 12:42

“The Zaev Government is misinforming the public when it claims it can safely vet the arriving Afghan refugees”

The Zaev Government is misinforming the public when it claims that it can do background checks on thousands of Afghan refugees, said VMRO-DPMNE member of Parliament Antonio Milososki. He was responding to the assurances from Zaev’s adviser Edmond Ademi, who insisted that the Macedonian security...

Macedonia 16.08.21 | 23:29

Unable to withdraw its own citizens from Kabul, Macedonia offers to accept Afghan asylum seekers

Even while dozens of Macedonian citizens remain stranded in Kabul, the Zaev Government announced it will admit Afghan refugees and asylum seekers. Macedonia withdrew its troops in July, but the number of Macedonians who work for private contractors in Afghanistan and have not evacuated yet is estimated...

World 16.08.21 | 10:22

Chaos and panic at Kabul airport as Afghans and foreigners attempt to flee the capital

Thousands of Afghans and foreign nationals have surged on to the tarmac at Kabul airport seeking a place on a flight out of the country, amid chaotic scenes that unfolded as the Taliban took control of the city, The Guardian reported. With the Taliban installed in the presidential palace and the elected...

Macedonia 24.04.21 | 20:54

Norwegian attache denies claim that the Macedonian medical team was sent to Kabul unprepared

Norwegian Defense Attache Lieutenant Colonel Egil Daltveit sent out an open letter to deny claims that Macedonia sent an unprepared surgical team to Afghanistan. The team operates within a Norwegian field hospital in Kabul and, as a number of news outlets reported in February, was apparently unprepared...

Macedonia 21.04.21 | 16:42

VMRO-DPMNE: Norway expert team assessed that the chief surgeon in the Kabul medical team doesn’t know how to perform basic surgical interventions

VMRO-DPMNE MP, Bojan Stojanovski, stressed on Wednesday that care should be taken what kind of people are sent to missions representing our country. He pointed to the case of sending a medical team to Kabul trained in Norway, whose members, he said, were assessed by Norwegian experts as unable to perform...

Macedonia 19.02.21 | 21:01

Macedonia sent an unqualified medical team to Afghanistan, leaked report reveals

Republika was given a report that indicates that a Macedonian surgeon sent to Afghanistan was completely incompetent for the task. The report details an evaluation of a medical team of the Macedonian army by Norwegian surgeons who eventually concluded that the team can’t stand on its own and must...

World 25.12.18 | 11:03

Suicide bomber, gunmen attack government building in Kabul

A suicide bomber exploded his car outside a building housing the government’s department for martyrs and disabled persons before gunmen stormed the building Monday armed with automatic rifles and explosive devises, Kabul police chief spokesman Basir Mujahid said. Four people have been reported injured...