Germans question involvement in Afghanistan

"We can't pull out," Nouripour, a German of Iranian descent, said in an interview this week amid a controversy that eventually saw the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan replaced. "The Afghan people need us."..... - Germans question involvement in Afghanistan

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