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Germany’s parliament has granted a one-year extension of its military mandate for Afghanistan, allowing the country’s first major post-war troop deployment to continue until March 31, 2020. The approval allows Germany’s military, the Bundeswehr, to keep up to 1,300 soldiers in the country as part of NATO’s Resolute Support Mission (RSM), providing support and …

The UK Army will deploy 440 more troops to Afghanistan to train the Afghan National Security Forces. Laura Kuenssberg, the BBC’s political editor said, “Whispers tonight National Security Council to discuss increasing number of UK troops in Afhganistan tomorrrow, with govt likely to send another 440 to help train Afghan …

The U.S. has pulled out dozens of its troops along with weapons and equipment from Iraq and shifted them to Afghanistan in the past weeks, the Associated Press reported on Monday. Western contractors at the base quoted as saying that dozens of soldiers are leaving the base on daily flights. According …

Five consecutive mine blasts occurred  in southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan on Sunday, local officials said.  The explosions happened late on Sunday at around 07:30 pm in PD1 and PD2 of Kandahar City, the Provincial Police Chief, Gen. Abdul Raziq told Ariana News.  According to Gen. Raziq, at least six …

The international troops’ convoy has come under suicide attack in Lise Barek area of Dand district of Kandahar province, local officials said. The spokesman of Kandahar governor, Qudratullah Khoshbakht confirmed the attack but did not give further details about the casualties. The Foreign forces’ officials in Afghanistan have also confirmed …

NATO allies are set to agree on Thursday to increase by some 3,000 personnel the troop levels for the alliance’s Afghanistan training mission, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday. “We have decided to increase the number of troops … to help the Afghans break the stalemate,” Stoltenberg told reporters today …

Afghanistan needs additional U.S. forces for ending the ongoing war in the country that now on its 16th year, the Defense Ministry said Saturday. “We ask U.S. Department of State to deploy more troops to Afghanistan,” the Afghan Defense Ministry Spokesman, Dawlat Waziri said. “We want our army to stand …

The United States is still working on the plans and troops’ level for President Donald Trump’s new strategy for Afghanistan, Pentagon Spokesman said Monday.  Robert Manning said that Defense Secretary James Mattis has directed Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford “to put together a plan to achieve the strategic goals …

The U.S. State Department on Tuesday reacted to “open letter” of the Afghan Taliban to President Donald Trump, as the group reiterates call for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. In a news briefing, State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert confirmed receiving Taliban’s open letter to U.S. President Trump. “Yeah. I …

U.S. and allies pledged to send more troops to support Afghanistan’s hard-pressed military  on Thursday but left no details about its numbers, Afghan Acting Defense Minister stressed foreign troops level depends on security threats in the country. Tariq Shah Bahrami said on Friday that the number of additional foreign troops …

Roughly 300 Marines are en route to Afghanistan to help Afghan troops stop the Taliban from swallowing more of the hard-fought territory for which so many Marines have bled and died, Marine Corps Times has learned. The deployment of Marines from the II Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Lejeune, North …