Berlin: Germany’s last troops left Afghanistan on Tuesday after the spread of almost 20 years in the country, the Minister of Defense said.
Minister of Defense Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer tweeted that the last Bundeswehr army `leave Afghanistan safely ” Tuesday night.
He thanked more than 150,000 soldiers who had served there since 2001 and said that “ they can be proud of this mission.
“The German military said that the last troops were on their way home through Tbilisi, Georgia, and Brig.
General Ansgar Meyer, the last commander of the German contingent, was on the Airbus A400M aircraft that took him home.
NATO agreed in April to attract around 7,000 non-American forces from Afghanistan to match President Joe Biden’s decision to attract all American troops from the country started 1.
At that time, Germany had around 1,100 soldiers there.
The German contingent, which focuses on North Afghanistan, is the second largest in the current firm support mission after the United States’.
The last base is in Mazar-e-Sharif and Kabul.
“The historic chapter will end, the intense spread that demands the Bundeswehr and mark it, where the Bundeswehr proved himself in the battle, ‘said Kramp-Karrenbauer.
The German parliament first approved the delivery of military to Afghanistan in December 2001, and the first troops arrived in Kabul in January 2002.
Fifty-nine German troops died in the Afghan mission for many years.
American officials said the entire withdrawal of US troops would most likely be completed in July 4.
Around 750 container equipment has been sent back to Germany by land and air, including 120 vehicles and six helicopters, the Bundeswehr said.