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TIRANA, Dec 20 The first group of 95 troops were pulled out of Iraq last weekend and arrived in their homeland.
Lat week Albania’s Defense Ministry said the country would s pull its 218 troops out of Iraq. They have been serving in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul since 2003.
Defense Minister Gazmend Oketa participated in a ceremony in Mosul where the Albanian flag was lowered.
There was no dead among 1,338 Albanian troops who served in Iraq for more than five years.
Albania also has small army units in Bosnia, Afghanistan and Chad. The predominantly Muslim nation was invited to join NATO in April and expects to become a full member next year.
