96 Afghan citizens who were threatened with reprisals following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and who had previously cooperated with Hungary and its allies and were evacuated from Afghanistan have arrived at a facility run by the National Directorate-General for Aliens Policing in Röszke, SE Hungary, the Interior Ministry told the Hungarian state news agency MTI […]
Hungary’s government stressed that it will not permit an unrestricted inflow of migrants from Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover of the country. Meanwhile, Hungary is planning an evacuation operation to bring the remaining Hungarians and Afghans, who aided Hungary out of the capital, Kabul. The Hungarian government will not allow Afghan migrants to enter the […]
Hungary's military allies have evacuated 26 Hungarian citizens from Kabul to the Uzbekh capital, Tashkent, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) informed the state news agency MTI in a statement on Wednesday afternoon. "In coordination with the Hungarian side, our military allies have evacuated by air 26 Hungarian citizens stranded in Kabul," the […]
The local staff of the Hungarian Interchurch Aid's office in northern Afghanistan are not in immediate danger, but the Budapest headquarters is prepared for any eventuality, Kristóf Gáncs, communications director of the organization told the news website hvg.hu. In any case, the NGO, which has been present in Afghanistan for twenty years, has suspended work […]
After the end of the mission in Afghanistan, the last nine soldiers of the last shift arrived in Hungary, at the 59th Szentgyörgyi Dezső Air Base of the Hungarian Air Force in Kecskemét. Romulusz Ruszin-Szendi, commander of the Hungarian Defence Forces, receiving the Hungarian flag from the headquarters in Afghanistan, said that the flag is […]
A new shift of Hungarian soldiers have travelled to the Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif from a Hungarian military base to replace the Hungarian contingent there. Their main task is to provide protection for Hungarian military advisors in the region.
In the morning of December15, soldiers of the Hungarian-American Military Advisory Team (MAT) came into fighting contact in Afghanistan’s Kilagaj region. The night before, the MAT-base was attacked by insurgents' rocket fire.
As of October 1st, Hungary took over the international mission to protect Kabul International Airport in Afghanistan from Belgium that performed this task for nearly ten years. Apart from Hungarians, the new protection force also includes Portuguese soldiers.
Two Hungarian soldiers died and four were injured when a vehicle belonging to the convoy of the Provincial Reconstruction Team of the Hungarian Army in Afghanistan turned over in a traffic accident at 10.15 CET Tuesday.
Foreign Minister Janos Martonyi says the killing of Osama bin Laden a major success, but has not ended terrorism and it is uncertain how people in the Arab world ireact. The U.S. Embassy in Budapest has received special protection.
About five hundred Hungarian soldiers have returned home from their peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan and Kosovo. The ceremony to welcome the troops back was held in, southeastern town of Hódmezõvásárhely on Friday.
Hungary is going ahead with plans to upgrade equipment for its PRT mission in Afghanistan in spite of a call by President Hamid Karzai to demobilise the NATO reconstruction teams, the daily Népszabadság daily said on Thursday.
The Hungarian army's Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) based in Afghanistan's Baghlan Province does not participate in armed action and has never had a mandate to do so, the Defence Ministry said in reaction to a report by Wikileaks.
A Hungarian soldier seriously injured in an attack in Afghanistan two weeks ago died this Tuesday in the military hospital Honvédkórház in Budapest. He is the second mortal casualty of attack on home-bound Hungarian troops.
A Hungarian soldier died and three were injured as their convoy came under fire Monday morning in Afghanistan. The convoy was transporting home-bound Hungarian troops of the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT).
