As part of an overall plan to withdraw all troops by 2014 and with the agreement of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Spanish Defense Minister Carme Chacón announces that soldiers will begin returning home in January 2012.

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/spanish-troops-to-start-leaving-afghanistan-in-january_100582139.html
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2011/12/06/spanish-troops-to-start-leaving-afghanistan-in-january/