Germany to stop reconnaissance missions over Iraq, Syria
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BERLIN - Germany will next year end its reconnaissance and air-to-air refuelling missions that are part of US-led operations against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the government decided on Tuesday, a document seen by Reuters showed.
Germany, whose Nazi past makes military action a sensitive issue, has mainly carried out limited engagements abroad since World War Two, focusing on training, surveillance, medical rescue and peacekeeping, although it participated in the 1999 air offensive on what was then Yugoslavia.
Germany's air force will end the flights by Oct. 31, 2019, the document showed, without giving a reason for the decision.
