Belgium To End Kabul Airport Protection Mission
Belgium is ending its longest mission in Afghanistan, the protection
of Kabul International Airport (KAIA), over the next few months.
Starting in October, the mission will be taken over by a multinational
unit under French command and including Portuguese, Hungarian and
Albanian troops.
Belgium has been conducting the mission with around 250 troops since the beginning of 2003.
Belgium will continue to participate in other NATO International
Security Assistance Force (ISAF) missions in Afghanistan. In Kabul, it
will continue to have personnel assigned to ISAF headquarters and in
various Afghan National Army (ANA) schools. In Kandahar, where Belgium
has a detachment of F-16s, four Belgian instructors are mentoring the
Afghan National Air Force, and Belgian surgeons are working in the
base's military hospital. In Kunduz, Belgian personnel are supporting
the provincial reconstruction team and are members of military advisory
teams advising, training and supporting the ANA. Finally, Belgian
instructors are teaching at the ANA engineering school in
Mazar-e-Sharif.
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