Germany should consider extending its Afghanistan mandate to allow its troops to move to the south of the country, where other NATO members’ forces have faced a wave of suicide attacks, a U.S. official said on Monday. U.S. Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns told a defense conference in Berlin, organized by the Welt am Sonntag newspaper, that Germany should ask itself whether more flexibility was needed in deploying troops in Afghanistan. Full Story
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