German journalists killed in Afghanistan
691241
Two German journalists working for the country's national broadcaster and traveling on their own through northern Afghanistan were killed on Saturday by gunmen, the Afghan government said.
537993
Eighty-one journalists and media staffers were killed worldwide in 2006, making it the deadliest year for reporters in more than a decade, Reporters Without Borders said Thursday.
435919
Afghan soldiers killed two prisoners  holed up in Kabul's Pul-i-Charki jail on Friday after a  day-long siege that started when a group of inmates identified  as al Qaeda killed their guards in an attempted jailbreak.
739149
A suicide bomber blew up a room full of police officers eating lunch at a southern Afghan checkpoint yesterday, killing 10 and wounding 11, while a roadside bomb in the east killed a NATO soldier, authorities said. In the west, kidnappers released a German man and his translator, hours after demanding $40,000 for their freedom, officials said. ...
634630
A German national was kidnapped in western Afghanistan and it was not immediately known if the Taliban were responsible, officials said on Monday.
721935
As the first European memorial to journalists killed on the job was inaugurated Saturday, word trickled in that two reporters had been shot to death in Afghanistan and another was killed in Russia.
260456
In the deadliest year for journalists in a decade, 54 reporters and crew are killed.
528105
Two German civilians taken hostage in Afghanistan this week have been killed, a Taleban spokesman says.
712214
An Afghan man is sentenced to death for killing four journalists - three of them foreign - in 2001.
572848
The third German in a week - a journalist - is kidnapped in eastern Afghanistan, local officials say.
517646
Afghanistan&#39;s Taliban movement said on  Saturday it had killed one of the two German hostages it was  holding after the end of its deadline, and would kill the other  in less than an hour if its demands were not met.
257229
An Afghan court sentenced a man to death Saturday for the 2001 killing of three foreign journalists and an Afghan colleague who were pulled from their cars, robbed and shot as they rushed to cover the collapse of the Taliban.
283640
A purported Taliban spokesman said Saturday that the Islamic militia had killed two German hostages, a claim disputed by both Afghanistan and Germany. He also offered to trade 23 captive South Koreans for imprisoned Taliban fighters.
170387
Unidentified gunmen shoot dead a German aid worker in the northern Afghan province of Sar-e-Pul.
742170
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan judges sentenced a man to death yesterday in the slaying of three foreign journalists and an Afghan colleague, who were pulled from their cars, robbed, and shot as they rushed to cover the collapse of the Taliban.
721771
Gunmen on motorbikes shot dead a top women's affairs official in Afghanistan and two apparent suicide attackers were killed in a blast that wounded a foreign soldier.
640545
An Afghan journalist sentenced to death for distributing an article that allegedly violated Islam is actually being punished for reporting by his brother about abuses by northern warlords, a media group said Wednesday.