Alwaght – Germany will send hundreds of troops to fight the ISIS arms smugglings in Mediterranean Sea off the Libyan shores, Reuters reported on Wednesday.
The German armed forced will deploy 650 troops to a new NATO mission to fight and contain the flow of arms smuggled by the ISIS terrorist group into Syria and Iraq.
The ISIS terrorists currently import parts of their weapons through the Mediterranean Sea and the mission called sea guardian is a patrolling group to stop and search suspicious carriers.
Despite missions like the mentioned group, ISIS uses the blind eye of some NATO members like Turkey as well as intelligence and logistic supports from complicit region countries to import weapons and ammunitions from land routes.
“When I was in Tal Abyad in May, 2015, we received a lot of weapons and ammunition without any obstacles from the Turkish border guards,” an ex-fighter-now-supporter for ISIS said in an exclusive interview with the British Independent Newspaper last week. Syrians have repeatedly raised the issue but Turkish government rejected the claims as unsupported.
The deployment is part of a broader shift by Germany to expand its military role in Europe and NATO. Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen has sought to rebuild equipment and troop levels of the armed forces after years of declines.
NATO members agreed to launch the new maritime mission at a summit in Poland in July. German ships are also participating in a European Union military mission called Sophia to try to combat the smuggling of weapons and people off the Libyan coast.
