30
Oct
After 14 years of deployment, Spain has completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan
After 14 years of deployment, Spain has completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan where it still had 450 troops at the Forward Support Base of Herat, a province in the northwest of the country.
Twenty Spanish military officials will remain at the headquarters of the NATO-led Resolute Support mission in Kabul.
The Spanish military presence in Herat consisted of the protection force operating at the base and the city's airport, the Air Force military officials in charge of running the airport, the Role 2E military hospital, a logistics unit and personnel at the general headquarters of the Training, Advise and Assist Command West.
In total, 29,861 Spanish troops deployed to Afghanistan since January 2002, having suffered 102 fatalities. After Bosnia-Herzegovina, Afghanistan has been the longest military operation of Spain's modern armed forces.