Germany to deploy up to 3,000 peacekeeping troops in Afghanistan
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Berlin, July 9, IRNA
Germany-Afghanistan-Troops
Germany will station up to 3,000 peacekeeping soldiers in almost all of Afghanistan whose aim will be to support the reconstruction of the war-torn country, the online site of Der Spiegel news magazine cited Saturday a confidential German Defense Ministry document.
According to the classified report, German troops should be "capable of backing NATO operations within the administrative region of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)".
The German military mandate will no longer be restricted to only Kabul and the northern Afghan region of Kunduz.
At present time, there are some 2,250 German peacekeeping soldiers stationed in Afghanistan of which 450 troops are deployed in Kunduz.
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