{"id":2483,"date":"2020-11-18T17:37:35","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T12:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/?p=2483"},"modified":"2020-11-18T17:37:35","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T12:07:35","slug":"nato-chief-warns-of-heavy-price-if-us-troops-leave-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/?p=2483","title":{"rendered":"NATO chief warns of &#8216;heavy price&#8217; if US troops leave Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sender-info\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">(ANI): The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday said that the military organisation could pay a heavy price for leaving Afghanistan too early, after US President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration&#8217;s plan to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan, Tolo News reported.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">&#8220;Afghanistan risks becoming once again a platform for international terrorists to plan and organize attacks on our homelands. And ISIS (Daesh) could rebuild in Afghanistan the terror caliphate it lost in Syria and Iraq,&#8221; Stoltenberg said in a statement.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">&#8220;NATO Allies support the peace process in Afghanistan. As part of this process, we have already significantly adjusted our presence,&#8221; he added.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">Stoltenberg said that he has repeatedly stressed that they will continue to review their troop levels in Afghanistan. &#8220;We now have under 12,000 NATO troops in Afghanistan, and more than half of these are non-US forces.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">The NATO mentioned that even with further US reductions, the organisation will continue its mission to train, advise, and assist the Afghan security forces.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">&#8220;We are also committed to funding them through 2024.&#8221; &#8220;We went into Afghanistan together.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">And when the time is right, we should leave together in a coordinated and orderly way.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">I count on all NATO allies to live up to this commitment, for our own security,&#8221; Stoltenberg said. Last month, US President Donald Trump said in a Twitter post that he wanted all 4,500 US troops in Afghanistan home by Christmas, but top military and national security aides advised against such a precipitous withdrawal, Tolo News further reported.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">The reports come as violence has significantly increased in the country despite peace efforts. Meanwhile, the peace negotiations in Doha have stalled over differences on ground rules for the talks.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(ANI): The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday said that the military organisation could pay a heavy price for leaving Afghanistan too early, after US President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration&#8217;s plan to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan, Tolo News reported. &#8220;Afghanistan risks becoming once again a platform for international terrorists to plan and organize attacks on our homelands. And ISIS (Daesh) could rebuild in Afghanistan the terror caliphate it lost in Syria and Iraq,&#8221; Stoltenberg said in a statement. &#8220;NATO Allies support the peace process in Afghanistan. As part of this process, we have already significantly adjusted our presence,&#8221; he added. Stoltenberg said that he has repeatedly stressed that they will continue to review their troop levels in Afghanistan. &#8220;We now have under 12,000 NATO troops in Afghanistan, and more than half of these are non-US forces.&#8221; The NATO mentioned that even with further US reductions, the organisation will continue its mission to train, advise, and assist the Afghan security forces. &#8220;We are also committed to funding them through 2024.&#8221; &#8220;We went into Afghanistan together. And when the time is right, we should leave together in a coordinated and orderly way. I count on all NATO allies&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}