Germany's armed forces are to continue their deployments in Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and off the coast of Lebanon as part of international missions, lawmakers in Berlin agreed on June 27. Germany's parliament extended the mandate for NATO's KFOR mission in Kosovo, the EU mission Eufor Althea in Bosnia, and the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). The KFOR mission will continue to have up to 400 German soldiers. At 25 years, KFOR is the German military's longest continuous overseas mission. In Eufor Althea, up to 50 German soldiers are to help ensure compliance with the Dayton agreement, which ended the Bosnian War in 1995. The Bundeswehr can also continue to support the UNIFIL mission by contributing up to 300 soldiers.
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