Over 5,000 people have participated in peaceful rallies in Berlin and Stuttgart to protest Germany's military role in Afghanistan. The gatherings were organised by a collective of some 250 peace groups under the slogan: "Give peace a chance, troops out of Afghanistan." The German parliament is set to renew the Afghan deployment in October, extending the mandate by 15 months and increasing the maximum troop level by 1,000 to 4,500.
Currently about 3,300 German soldiers are serving in Afghanistan as part of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). Germany has lost about 30 troops in Afghanistan since 2002, the year after the Taliban regime was removed in a US-led invasion.
(Deutsche Welle)
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