Denmark will keep its 500 troops in Iraq for another 12 months, a government source told Reuters on Friday. The current mandate for Danish troops to remain in Iraq runs out on July 1. The government had no plan at present to reduce the number of troops, who are all stationed near Basra in the south of Iraq, the source said. Denmark has been part of the US-led multi-national security force in Iraq since the end of the 2003 war.