KABUL:
France flew its last combat troops out of Afghanistan on Saturday, two
years before allied nations in the 100,000-strong NATO mission led by
the United States are due to recall their fighting forces.
Around
200 soldiers of the 25th Belfort infantry regiment, responsible for
overseeing the hastened French exit from the 11-year war, took off
around 2:30 pm local time (1000 GMT), an airport official told.
They
are expected to return to France on December 18 following a three-day
decompression stay on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus.
Their
departure means France has around 1,500 soldiers left in Afghanistan,
the vast majority in Kabul. They are due to stay into 2013 to take
responsibility for repatriating equipment and training the Afghan army
to take over.
At the height of its involvement, France had 4,000
soldiers in Afghanistan as the fifth largest military contingent in the
International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), behind the United
States, Britain, Germany and Italy.
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