Poland withdrawing troops from Afghanistan end of June: President

FILE -- Soldiers board a transport helicopter at a base in Kunduz, Afghanistan, March 6, 2011. What no one knew in 2001 was that Operation Enduring Freedom, the invasion to rout al-Qaida and its hosts, the Taliban, from Afghanistan would turn into a war that is now in its 20th year — America’s longest. (Damon Winter/The New York Times)

Poland will withdraw its troops from Afghanistan at the end of June, President Andrzej Duda said on Thursday, bringing its two-decade presence in the country to an end.

NATO allies agreed in April that foreign troops under NATO command will withdraw from Afghanistan in coordination with a US pull-out by Sept. 11.

“At the end of June, after 20 years, we are ending our military involvement in the largest NATO operation in history,” Duda wrote on Twitter, adding that the first troops would return to Poland on Thursday night.

After withdrawing, the US and NATO aim to rely on Afghan military and police forces, which they have developed with billions of dollars in funding, to maintain security.

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