11.   Still, they also inserted a target of making German deployments abroad subject to a two-thirds majority in parliament rather than the current simple majority.

12.   The German deployment, approved last Friday by parliament, is the first time since World War II that German soldiers are being sent into a combat zone abroad.

13.   The planes represent the first German military deployment outside its borders since World War II.

14.   The present German deployment is made up of health units, engineers and transport specialists.