The prime minister said the U.K. will still support Afghanistan through diplomacy as its troops return from their deployment there.
allies risks undoing the work of nearly two decades or leaves Afghanistan vulnerable to the Taliban, which has made rapid advances in many northern districts.
The prime minister declined to give details about the troop withdrawal, citing security reasons. But he said that"all British troops assigned to NATO's mission in Afghanistan are now returning home," adding that"most of our personnel have already left." He stressed that Britain remains committed to helping achieve a peace settlement in Afghanistan through diplomacy.
A total of 457 British service members died in Afghanistan during the U.K.'s deployment, a much higher death rate compared with the U.K.'s involvement in Iraq. Britain's last combat troops left Afghanistan in October 2014, though about 700 remained in Afghanistan as part of a NATO mission to train Afghan forces.
Britain's Defense Ministry has said the withdrawal of the last troops would be"complete within a few months."announced Tuesday that 90 percent of American troops and equipment had already left the country, with the drawdown set to finish by late August. Last week, U.S. officials vacated the country's biggest airfield, Bagram Air Base, the epicenter of the war to oust the Taliban and hunt down the al-Qaida perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks on America.
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