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Swedish soldier injured by Aghanistan bomb

National: 23 Mar 12
A Swedish soldier on duty in Afghanistan was seriously injured by a roadside bomb on Friday west of the Swedish military base in Mazar-i-Sharif. READ »

Swedish soldier injured in Afghanistan

National: 13 Aug 11
A Swedish soldier was shot in the leg during a routine mission neary Mazar-e-Sharif in Afghanistan on Saturday morning. READ »

Swedish officer badly hurt in Afghanistan

National: 19 Nov 10
A Swedish officer and two Finnish soldiers were seriously injured when their vehicle was shot with a rocket launcher in Afghanistan on Friday. READ »

Swedish soldiers escape Afghanistan firefight

National: 18 Aug 10
A Swedish patrol was involved in a firefight in Afghanistan on Wednesday morning as the soldiers were towing a vehicle west of the town of Mazar-e-Sharif. The Swedes are reported to have escaped unhurt. READ »

Sahlin makes first visit to Afghanistan

Politics: 26 Jul 10
The Social Democrats' leader, Mona Sahlin, is visiting Afghanistan for the first time. During her trip, she will visit Swedes in the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). READ »

Swedish officers 'executed' in Afghanistan

National: 25 Mar 10
The attack which left two Swedish officers dead in February has been described as a "pure execution" in an Armed Forces report on the incident published on Thursday. The report did not however rule out friendly fire. READ »

Support grows for Afghanistan troops

National: 17 Feb 10
Support for the military operation in Afghanistan has increased strongly since the death of two Swedish officers and a local interpreter on February 7th, a new poll shows. READ »

'We killed Swedish soldiers': Taliban

National: 11 Feb 10
The Taliban has claimed that it was behind the attack that killed two Swedish solders and their Afghan interpreter on Sunday. READ »

Sweden to send more troops to Afghanistan

National: 10 Feb 10
Sweden plans to reinforce its contingent of troops in Afghanistan with 30 soldiers to be sent from Karlsborg during next week. READ »

Three arrested for killing of Swedish soldiers

National: 9 Feb 10
Three men have been arrested in Afghanistan on suspicion of being connected to the the death of Swedish soldiers Johan Palmlöv and Gunnar Andersson near Mazar-e Sharif on Sunday. READ »

Swedish soldiers killed by 'Afghan police'

National: 8 Feb 10
Military police are conducting an investigation into reports that the two Swedish military officers killed in Afghanistan on Sunday were attacked by a police officer. READ »

Two Swedes killed in Afghanistan

National: 7 Feb 10
Two Swedish military officers and a local interpreter were killed on Sunday when their unit came under fire west of Mazar-e Sharif in Afghanistan. READ »

Crown Princess in surprise Afghanistan trip

Society: 5 Jan 10
Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria and her fiancé Daniel Westling on Sunday and Monday greeted Swedish soldiers stationed in Afghanistan. READ »

Allow Afghan women to give massages: army adviser

Society: 14 Dec 09
A Swedish army gender adviser in Afghanistan has taken the Armed Forces to task for only employing local men to perform massages on troops stationed in Mazar-E-Sharif. READ »

Swedish soldiers 'unstable' after Afghanistan explosion

National: 12 Nov 09
The conditions of two of the soldiers injured in a bomb explosion in Afghanistan on Wednesday are reported to have deteriorated overnight. READ »

Five Swedish soldiers injured in Afghanistan

National: 11 Nov 09
Five Swedish soldiers have been injured in an explosion that also claimed the life of a local foreign language interpreter, the Swedish Armed Forces said in a statement on Wednesday. READ »

Attacks on Swedish soldiers 'hushed up'

National: 28 May 06
Details of attacks on members of the Swedish Armed Forces on peacekeeping operations in Afghanistan have not been reported to the parliamentary defence committee. READ »

Military planes ready to evacuate Swedes

National: 8 Feb 06
Just weeks before Sweden doubles its peacekeeping presence in Afghanistan, planes are on standby to evacuate Swedes from areas affected by the furore surrounding the cartoons of the prophet Muhammad. READ »


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