Kabul : Germany’s armed forces have pulled out of a strategic outpost in northern Afghanistan.
The move is part of a gradual hand over of security responsibilities to Afghan troops, which is to be completed by the end of 2014. Bundeswehr soldiers officially handed over control of Observation Post North to Afghan troops in a ceremony on Saturday.
A press statement issued by the Bundeswehr's mission command center in the eastern German city of Potsdam said around 200 German soldiers had been based at the camp, which is now to be manned by 250 of their Afghan counterparts. From Saturday onwards, the Germans who left Observation Post North were to be stationed on the Bundeswehr's main base in Afghanistan at Mazar-i-Sharif.
