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Germany planning to deploy 1,200 troops for IS fight
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleGermany is planning to deploy 1,200 troops to help France in the fight against Islamic State jihadists in Syria, its army chief says, in what would be the military’s biggest deployment abroad.
“From a military point of view, around 1,200 soldiers would be necessary to run the planes and ship,” army chief of staff General Volker Wieker tells Bild am Sonntag newspaper, adding that the mission would begin “very quickly once a mandate is obtained.”
“The government is seeking a mandate this year,” says Wieker.
— AFP
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