Sydney: Australian Defense Minister on Sunday confirmed the end of his country’s involvement in the 20-year-old Afghan war, said the withdrawal of troops had occurred “in the last few weeks”.
Australia announced in April that he would remove his troops left in September in line with the US decision to end his military operation in a flat war.
Defense Minister Peter Dutton told Sky News that 80 of the country’s last support personnel had left Afghanistan “in the last few weeks”.
“That does not mean we will not be part of the campaign with the United States …
where we assume that in our national interests or for the benefit of our allies,” he added.
“For now, the campaign has ended.” Australia has deployed 39,000 troops for the past 20 years as part of US operations and NATO LEDs against the Taliban and terrorist groups in Afghanistan, a mission that costs billions of dollars and leaves 41 Australian troops to die.
And while the state does not have a significant presence of forces in Afghanistan since attracting combat personnel at the end of 2013, the war has taken the corsik and triggered controversy at home.
Veteran groups have pressured the government to launch a formal investigation into a large number of suicide among Afghan veterans and former soldiers and other women.
The military and the police were also actively investigating the allegations that the army of the Special Service Elite conducted a lot of war crimes in Afghanistan.