The German government is bringing home most of the soldiers that were deployed to the eastern Mediterranean for a possible evacuation of German citizens from Lebanon....CONTINUE READING
About 1,000 German soldiers are to leave the island of Cyprus starting Wednesday, according to German news agency dpa. A small team of about 200 as well as material and equipment will remain behind. The decision was made following an assessment of the current conflict in the Middle East.
“The Bundeswehr generally keeps its resources available for evacuation operations in such a way that it can react flexibly to crisis situations worldwide,” the German defense ministry and foreign office said in a joint statement. The forces brought back to Germany will be kept on call at short notice to “be able to react quickly in the event of a worsening situation,” it said.
The special forces would have been deployed to evacuate German citizens from Lebanon in case the war spread there.
