Austria Withdrawing From Golan Heights Peacekeeping Force

Austria has announced that they will be pulling their troops out of the UN peacekeepers in the Golan Heights.

UN forces are there as part of a mission to ensure peace between Israel and Syria.

However, recently violence from the Syrian civil war has spread to the border area.

The government of Austria does not want to see it's troops killed, whether accidentally or purposefully, in someone else's war.

Officials at the UN are highly worried over the withdrawal as Austria's troops make up three hundred and eighty of the thousand strong force.