{"id":58236,"date":"2021-04-21T21:37:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T21:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2021\/04\/21\/earlier-withdrawal-for-international-troops-from-afghanistan-under-consideration\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T10:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T10:00:18","slug":"earlier-withdrawal-for-international-troops-from-afghanistan-under-consideration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/flashpoints\/2021\/04\/21\/earlier-withdrawal-for-international-troops-from-afghanistan-under-consideration\/","title":{"rendered":"Earlier withdrawal for international troops from Afghanistan under consideration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BERLIN \u2014 Discussions are underway among military planners with the NATO-led Resolute Support Mission in Kabul for a possible withdrawal of international troops from Afghanistan as early as July 4, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2021\/02\/02\/afghanistan-troop-withdrawal-should-be-tied-with-peace-talk-progress-says-german-foreign-minister\/\" target=_blank>Germany\u2019s Defense Ministry<\/a> said Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If agreed, the date would move up by more than two months the timeline to bring international troops home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Resolute Support headquarters in Kabul are currently considering whether to shorten the withdrawal period,\u201d Defense Ministry spokesman David Helmbold told reporters in Berlin. \u201cThe 4th of July is now being considered as a pullout date. The ministry informed the (German parliament\u2019s) defense committee about this today.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NATO agreed earlier this month to withdraw its roughly 7,000 non-American forces from Afghanistan to match <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2021\/04\/14\/biden-says-keeping-us-troops-in-afghanistan-past-this-summer-makes-no-sense-to-me\/\" target=_blank>U.S. President Joe Biden\u2019s decision to pull all American troops<\/a> from the country starting on May 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Biden has said he wants the process completed by Sept. 11, while NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has only said the withdrawal was expected to be done \u201cwithin a few months.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Germany, which currently has a little more than 1,000 troops participating in the mission there, so far has said it hopes to complete its part of the withdrawal by 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