An Afghan farmer and Dutch soldiers in Tarin Kowt
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.