https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday that efforts must be focused on getting German nationals as well as Afghans who had worked with Germans out of Afghanistan after the Taliban seized power. https://www.thelocal.de/20210816/german-forces-to-help-evacuate-people-from-afghanistan Mon, 16 Aug 2021 12:41:14 +0200 german-forces-to-help-evacuate-people-from-afghanistan Germany wants to extend its military presence in Afghanistan, where it has the second-largest contingent after the United States, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Saturday. https://www.thelocal.de/20210213/germany-wants-troops-to-stay-on-in-afghanistan Sat, 13 Feb 2021 14:50:03 +0100 germany-wants-troops-to-stay-on-in-afghanistan Germany on Tuesday detained a German-Afghan man on suspicion he was spying for Iran while working for the German army as a linguistic and cultural adviser. https://www.thelocal.de/20190115/germany-arrests-german-afghan-army-adviser-for-spying-for-iran Tue, 15 Jan 2019 14:33:10 +0100 germany-arrests-german-afghan-army-adviser-for-spying-for-iran An asylum seeker deported to Afghanistan this month will be returned to Germany, the interior ministry said Wednesday, in the latest of a series of scandals surrounding Berlin's hardening migration policy. https://www.thelocal.de/20180719/wrongfully-deported-afghan-to-return-to-germany-ministry Thu, 19 Jul 2018 10:09:03 +0200 wrongfully-deported-afghan-to-return-to-germany-ministry An Afghan man deported from Germany has been found dead in a hotel room in Kabul after committing suicide, officials said Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20180711/afghan-deported-from-germany-commits-suicide-leading-to-call-for-seehofer-to-quit Wed, 11 Jul 2018 16:41:52 +0200 afghan-deported-from-germany-commits-suicide-leading-to-call-for-seehofer-to-quit An Afghan asylum seeker went on trial in southern Germany on Tuesday accused of stabbing to death a compatriot mother-of-four because he was furious she had converted to Christianity. https://www.thelocal.de/20180123/trial-starts-of-afghan-accused-of-killing-christian-convert-mother-of-four Tue, 23 Jan 2018 15:30:14 +0100 trial-starts-of-afghan-accused-of-killing-christian-convert-mother-of-four An Afghan man who was illegally expelled from Germany has arrived back in Frankfurt, a refugee rights group said on Thursday, after a three month bureaucratic struggle. https://www.thelocal.de/20171214/germany-takes-back-illegally-expelled-afghan-man Thu, 14 Dec 2017 17:08:29 +0100 germany-takes-back-illegally-expelled-afghan-man Eight Afghans expelled from Germany arrived in Kabul on Wednesday as Berlin resumed deportations of rejected asylum seekers from the war-torn country months after a huge truck bomb hit the Afghan capital. https://www.thelocal.de/20170913/germany-resumes-afghan-deportations-months-after-kabul-truck-bomb Wed, 13 Sep 2017 12:29:18 +0200 germany-resumes-afghan-deportations-months-after-kabul-truck-bomb The German government said on Tuesday that US President Donald Trump’s decision to send additional troops to Afghanistan was “the right thing to do.” https://www.thelocal.de/20170822/germany-welcomes-us-troop-boost-in-afghanistan-but-wont-follow-suit Tue, 22 Aug 2017 19:19:58 +0200 germany-welcomes-us-troop-boost-in-afghanistan-but-wont-follow-suit German media reported on Wednesday that the government will for now end controversial mass deportations of Afghan asylum seekers, and only deport people in certain cases. https://www.thelocal.de/20170809/germany-to-deport-afghan-refugees-only-in-exceptional-cases-report Wed, 09 Aug 2017 12:25:03 +0200 germany-to-deport-afghan-refugees-only-in-exceptional-cases-report When some of their best players received a deportation notice to return to Afghanistan, a boys' football team in Hesse decided to step up to help them stay with their newfound "family". https://www.thelocal.de/20170602/german-youth-football-team-rallies-behind-star-players-facing-deportation Fri, 02 Jun 2017 17:34:02 +0200 german-youth-football-team-rallies-behind-star-players-facing-deportation Germany has temporarily suspended the group deportations of rejected Afghan asylum seekers following the Kabul truck bomb attack, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.de/20170601/germany-suspends-afghan-refugee-deportations-after-kabul-attack Thu, 01 Jun 2017 20:44:31 +0200 germany-suspends-afghan-refugee-deportations-after-kabul-attack Around 300 students at a vocational school in Nuremberg staged a spontaneous demonstration to protest the deportation of their 20-year-old Afghan classmate on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20170601/hundreds-of-students-clash-with-police-over-deportation-of-afghan-classmate Thu, 01 Jun 2017 17:27:43 +0200 hundreds-of-students-clash-with-police-over-deportation-of-afghan-classmate Germany said on Wednesday it had postponed a scheduled deportation flight of rejected Afghan asylum seekers after a Kabul truck bomb attack killed 80 and wounded hundreds. https://www.thelocal.de/20170531/germany-postpones-deportation-of-asylum-seekers-after-kabul-attack Wed, 31 May 2017 16:00:26 +0200 germany-postpones-deportation-of-asylum-seekers-after-kabul-attack The German embassy was massively damaged and workers were injured in a vehicle bomb attack in the Afghan capital on Wednesday morning that has killed at least 80 people. https://www.thelocal.de/20170531/german-embassies-damaged-in-kabul-blast-french-minister Wed, 31 May 2017 11:16:53 +0200 german-embassies-damaged-in-kabul-blast-french-minister Eighteen Afghans deported from Germany arrived in Kabul Thursday after their asylum pleas were rejected, the third group to be sent back in recent months as Berlin speeds up the expulsions. https://www.thelocal.de/20170223/germany-deports-third-group-of-afghan-migrants-to-kabul Thu, 23 Feb 2017 16:11:25 +0100 germany-deports-third-group-of-afghan-migrants-to-kabul Several German states are reportedly halting or considering halting deportations of failed asylum seekers to Afghanistan due to the worsening security situation, according to German media reports on Monday. https://www.thelocal.de/20170206/german-states-to-delay-afghan-deportations-due-to-security-situation-report Mon, 06 Feb 2017 15:00:09 +0100 german-states-to-delay-afghan-deportations-due-to-security-situation-report Germany deported a second batch of would-be Afghan refugees to Kabul Tuesday under a disputed Afghan-EU deal signed last October and aimed at curbing the influx of immigrants. https://www.thelocal.de/20170124/germany-begins-second-wave-of-controversial-afghan-deportations Tue, 24 Jan 2017 10:42:28 +0100 germany-begins-second-wave-of-controversial-afghan-deportations A few weeks ago an Afghan man flew into Frankfurt Airport with his family and applied for asylum. An investigation revealed he was in fact a senior member of the Taliban, Spiegel reports. https://www.thelocal.de/20161216/taliban-leader-tries-and-fails-to-get-asylum-in-germany Fri, 16 Dec 2016 17:36:11 +0100 taliban-leader-tries-and-fails-to-get-asylum-in-germany On Thursday morning a flight carrying 34 rejected asylum seekers arrived in the Afghan capital, Kabul. They were the first people to leave Germany in a highly contested programme of "collective deportations" to the war-torn country. https://www.thelocal.de/20161215/germany-begins-controversial-mass-deportations-to-afghanistan Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:53:08 +0100 germany-begins-controversial-mass-deportations-to-afghanistan