NATO will boost its training mission in Afghanistan by 3,000 troops, according to chief Jens Stoltenberg.
Around half the new troops will come from the United States, and the overall size of NATO’s training and support mission in the unrest-hit country will increase from 13,000 to 16,000, he said.
Croatian soldiers from the NATO coalition walk past a crater from a bomb blast as they inspect the site of an attack targeting the German consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan on November 11, 2016. (AFP/Farshad Usyan)
Speaking a day before NATO defense ministers meet in Brussels, Stoltenberg says the alliance will boost its presence “to help the Afghans break the stalemate, to send a clear message to Taliban to the insurgents that they will not win on the battleground.”
“There will be more troops. Current level is around 13,000, the new level will be around 16,000… so far indications are roughly half US, half non-US,” he adds.
— AFP
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