Germany is sending military aircraft with paratroopers to Kabul

Desk report: Germany is sending military aircraft including paratroopers to Afghanistan. The plane is being sent to evacuate embassy staff and Afghan aid workers from Kabul. A report published in the German media Bild M Sontag on Sunday confirmed this information. Without citing any sources, the report said that Germany would evacuate embassy staff and Afghan aides from Afghanistan on a four-hundred-M military transport plane with 30 paratroopers. They were initially reported to have been taken from Kabul to nearby military bases, such as Tashkent in Uzbekistan. A spokesman for the German Defense Ministry said the withdrawal mission was prepared as a matter of urgency, the report said. However, he declined to say more. When the US-led NATO military invasion of Afghanistan began in 2001, German troops joined the alliance. Germany withdrew all troops from Afghanistan in June under a US deal with the Taliban in Doha, Qatar, last year.