ISAF was one of the largest coalitions in history and is NATO’s most challenging mission to date. At its height, the force was more than 130,000 strong, with troops from 51 NATO and partner nations.
NATO took the lead (click here) of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan on 11 August 2003. Mandated by the United Nations, ISAF’s primary objective was to enable the Afghan government to provide effective security across the country and develop new Afghan security forces to ensure Afghanistan would never again become a safe haven for terrorists. From 2011, responsibility for security was gradually transitioned to Afghan forces, which took the lead for security operations across the country by summer 2013. The transition process was completed and Afghan forces assumed full security responsibility at the end of 2014, when the ISAF mission was completed. A new, smaller non-combat mission (“Resolute Support”) was launched on 1 January 2015 to provide further training, advice and assistance to the Afghan security forces and institutions...
The reason the USA is still in Afghanistan is because of Iran. There is no other reason. The troops need to come home. The reason there are stupid accidents where people die in hospitals and due to tangling helicopters in wire is because there is NO PLACE for the USA military in Afghanistan.
Stop the funding for Afghanistan. It is a waste of money and there will be more USA deaths. This PLAN is outrageous. It is abusive of the American people.
If I were Afghan leadership I'd ask for a military force that didn't cause deaths of the Afghan soldiers and completely free of cost, too.
The United Nations needs to go forward with investigation and prosecution of the deaths at the Doctors Without Borders' hospital.
