{"id":90327,"date":"2019-03-22T04:56:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T04:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/germany-extends-military-mandate-for-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T13:05:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T13:05:21","slug":"germany-extends-military-mandate-for-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/germany-extends-military-mandate-for-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany extends military mandate for Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2019\/March\/22\/thumbs_b_c_a4275c28bb712b4d754aa47ac62c8e1c.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>BERLIN (SW) &#8211; Germany&#39;s parliament has granted a one-year extension of its military mandate for Afghanistan, allowing the country&#39;s first major post-war troop&nbsp;deployment to continue&nbsp;until&nbsp;March 31, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The approval allows Germany&#39;s military, the Bundeswehr,&nbsp;to keep up to 1,300 soldiers in the country as part of NATO&#39;s Resolute Support mission, providing support and training to Afghan security forces.&nbsp;Currently, Germany has 1,200 troops stationed there, the dpa reported<\/p>\n<p>The mission has been extended with virtually the same mandate as in past years, though recent suggestions from Washington that the United States may&nbsp;draw&nbsp;down its presence have provoked some uncertainty among NATO&nbsp;allies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fritz Felgentreu, a lawmaker from Germany&#39;s Social Democrats, urged the deployment to continue, but warned that if the US were to leave prematurely,&nbsp;the Bundeswehr would be expected to depart as well.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN (SW) &#8211; 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-90327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}