Czech troops return from Afghanistan after three months

In related news, around 30 members of the Czech army’s Second Contingent returned to Prague from Afghanistan on Saturday after three months in the country’s Uruzgan province. The soldiers were posted to the Central-Asian state to guard the Dutch-run Hadrian base. The Czech troops have now been replaced by Slovak counterparts. On Saturday, a number of Czech pilots and engineers also returned from Afghanistan, where they had been training local troops to pilot and maintain Mi-17 and Mi-24 helicopters. The soldiers will undergo health check-ups over the next couple of days, and be able to return to their families on Monday, an army spokesperson said.