Denmark will withdraw half of its 650 soldiers from Afghanistan in August, a year earlier than planned, Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt said.
An infantry unit had been due to be replaced in the Helmand province in August but Thorning-Schmidt said that an assessment by British and Danish defence officials showed that this was no longer needed.
“Therefore the only combat unit in Afghanistan will be our tank unit, which will remain,” she told reporters.
Danish media had reported earlier that all of the country’s forces would be withdrawn in August.
Denmark did not have a definitive calendar for withdrawal of its troops serving in a NATO force in Afghanistan.
NATO combat forces are due to pull out by the end of 2014. By then, the coalition is aiming to train 350,000 Afghan soldiers and police to take over responsibility for security.