Tuesday, Dec. 08, 2009
Netherlands (2,160)
The Netherlands is the lead nation in Uruzgan province in the country's south. Dutch troops provide one of the 26 Provincial Reconstruction Teams — units of soldiers, diplomats, and reconstruction experts working to rebuild Afghanistan's civil structures — in the country, as well as a Battle Group and six helicopters and jets based at Kandahar airport. The Dutch parliament voted in October to pull out in 2010.