NATO leaders are likely to approve an increase in troop deployments to Afghanistan, the head of the military alliance said Wednesday. Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said NATO is close to ...

NATO will start reducing troop levels in Afghanistan next year and hand over control of security to the Afghans in 2014 but will not abandon the country after that and let it slip back into chaos, ...

NATO announced that its member states will send at least 5,000 additional troops to Afghanistan to complement President Obama's commitment of 30,000 Americans. The promised contributions range from ...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The war in Afghanistan, fought for 13 bloody years and still raging, came to a formal end Sunday with a quiet flag-lowering ceremony in Kabul that marked the transition of the ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO should be able to nail down plans next month on the size and cost of Afghan security forces needed after most foreign troops leave in 2014, the alliance's chief said on ...

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said that Afghanistan's 350,000-member security forces are ready to take on the insurgency alone, despite complaints by officials that they lack the ...