Saturday, December 6, 2025

Georgia has relocated Afghanistan soldiers

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Defense Minister Irakli Alasania. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Defense Minister Irakli Alasania says Georgian soldiers in Afghanistan have relocated to a safer place after the last attack on one of their bases, which caused the death of seven soldiers.

However, the investigation into the Taliban threat video,

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Georgia's Security Council to meet to discuss video threat

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Georgia’s president Mikheil Saakashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–President Mikheil Saakashvili has called Georgia’s National Security Council together for another session in the beginning of this week to discuss a video threat uploaded on Youtube.

The video contains threats against Georgian soldiers in Afghanistan

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Georgia commemmorated fallen soldiers

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Defense Minister Irakli Alasania visiting one of the wounded soldiers. (Ministry of Defense.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Friday, Georgia commemorated the seven soldiers who died in a suicide attack in Afghanistan the day before.

The soldiers were serving in the 42nd infantry brigade at Base Lezernik in Helmand Province.

“We took the bodies of our seven heroes

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Diplomats in Georgia visit border area

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Razor wire like this is being put up through villages on the de facto border. (Radio Liberty.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Interior Ministry in Georgia Friday organized a trip for a few dozen foreign diplomats to villages close to the Russian-controlled breakaway region South Ossetia, where Russian border guards last week moved the border 300 meters into

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Seven Georgian soldiers die in Afghanistan suicide bombing

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Irakli Dzneladze (center), Head of Georgia’s Joint Staff. (Ministry of Defense.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Seven Georgian soldiers died in a suicide attack in Afghanistan Thursday.

President Mikheil Saakashvili has called for a national day of mourning on June 7 and asked that all the flags be lowered.

The Ministry of Defense on Thursday informed that

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Saakashvili rallies people to resist Russia

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President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili. (Official photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s President Mikheil Saakashvili Wednesday described the moving and fortifying of a de facto border between Georgian- and Russian-controlled territory in place since the war in 2008, as a call for everybody to resist Russian occupation.

“This session

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Georgian soldiers to remain in Afghanistan after 2014

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Georgia’s Minister of Defense Irakli Alasania (left) and NATO’s Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. (Official photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The NATO-Georgia commission held a session in Brussels on Wednesday as part of a meeting of ministers from member states.

The Alliance’s Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen opened the session by reiterating the importance of Georgia’s

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