The ruling Christian Democrats party in Germany calls for securing the withdrawal from Afghanistan with combat force

A politician in the Christian Democrats, affiliated with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, warned of the dangers that German soldiers might be exposed to at the end of the mission in Afghanistan.

“The moment of withdrawal is militarily dangerous… The Ministry of Defense must secure transportation with combat and operational forces… We have to provide special forces for this,” said Henning Utah, an expert in defense affairs in the Christian coalition parliamentary bloc, in statements to the German news agency (dpa).

The purpose… If we already have armed drones, we can better guarantee the safety of our soldiers”.

The United States, as the largest provider of forces, decided to withdraw from Afghanistan by September 11, the twentieth anniversary of the terrorist attacks launched by the Islamic al Qaeda network in the United States.

The German army is expected to leave Afghanistan by mid-August, and with 1,100 troops, Germany is the second largest provider of troops.

In Afghanistan, after the United States, as part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) mission, which has nearly 10,000 troops.

After 20 years of the mission, after the participation of a total of 100,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and the loss of 59 German soldiers there, the withdrawal was considered a “watershed point for the German army,” adding: “Twenty years ago, as NATO, we successfully demonstrated Islamic terrorism with the Red Card.

Afghanistan is not even today a safe haven for international terrorists… Afghanistan does not pose a threat to Europe or Germany.

The Afghan government is required to achieve security itself, and said: “The Taliban are required to renounce violence,” stressing at the same time the importance for NATO to clarify at the political level what the relationship between the Afghan government and the Taliban should be, explaining that this is of great importance in ensuring that the country setback again.

Henning Utah said: I am concerned about the fact that the power vacuum that may arise in Central Asia will soon be filled by Turkey, Russia, Pakistan and China, and new challenges will emerge from it.