Belgium will withdraw a significant portion of its military support for Iraq to reinvest invest more in Afghanistan, the newly appointed Defense Minister Sander Loones reported on the 2019 plan for military operations. The new minister continues the line of the past four years, marked by the fight against terrorism.
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| Members of the Belgian special forces - integrated in a detachment of 80 to 90 soldiers – have been operating in Iraq. They can now be redeployed to Afghanistan, where Belgium is still participating in NATO's Resolute Support Mission (RSM), which aims to train local security forces (Picture source: Belg24.com) |
