France to withdraw troops from France next month
France will begin to withdraw combat troops from Afghanistan next month, French President François Hollande says.
According to CBC report he spoke of the pullout after four French troops were killed and five others injured in a suicide bomb attack Saturday in Afghanistan's mountainous Kapisa province, which borders Pakistan.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in an email from spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid.
Hollande restated his plan to withdraw all French combat troops from the country by the end of the year. His timetable for a pullout is a year earlier than his predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy, had planned and two years before other NATO combat troops.