Germany and the Netherlands have both pledged increased support for the war effort in Afghanistan. The German parliament on Friday voted largely in favour of keeping the country's soldiers in Afghanistan for another year, despite increasing unpopularity for the war at home. The mandate authorizes continued deployment of up to 5,350 troops through January 2012, but includes a provision that a troop drawdown will begin by the end of this year, if the security situation allows. Germany currently has more than 4,800 troops in northern Afghanistan.In the Netherlands, parliamentarians approved sending a 545-member police training force to Afghanistan, nearly six months after Dutch troops withdrew from the war. Prime Minister Mark Rutte won over three small opposition parties to pass the motion, but earned disapproval from his coalition's main ally, Geert Wilders' anti-Islam Freedom Party. The country's previous coalition collapsed last year because of divisions as to whether to pull troops from the war-torn country.