Resolute Support Mission

Bulgarian Defense Minister Nikolay Nenchev has said the country will not pull its 110-strong contingent out of Afghanistan, despite threats by Prime Minister Boyko Borisov hurled last week and earlier in September.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has reiterated his idea that the deployment of Bulgarian soldiers in Afghanistan might be cancelled.

Borisov, who has already mentioned the option, has again cited the contradiction between the international coalition's commitment to enforcing security and democracy in Afghanistan and the inflow of migrants from the country into Europe.

An attack targeting Kandahar international airport in Afghanistan on Tuesday evening claimed the lives of at least nineteen people and left at least twenty other injured.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack at the heavily fortified airport, the BBC reports.

No Bulgarian servicemen were injured in a rocket attack, which targeted the Kandahar international airport in Afghanistan on Monday evening, the press servie of the defence ministry informs.

Bulgarian troops have been deployed to Afghanistan for participation in international missions in the past thirteen years.

The foreign ministers of NATO member countries will convene at a two-day meeting in Brussels on Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss current security issues and challenges.

The main issues on the agenda are Afghanistan, challenges from the south, relations with Russia, support to Ukraine and Montenegro's bid to join NATO.

The defence ministers of the NATO member countries are meeting in Brussels on Thursday over the situation in Syria and Afghanistan.

In a doorstep statement, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg highlighted the many challenges the Alliance is facing at present - conflict, instability, insecurity and a refugee crisis.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Bogdan Aurescu will participate on Wednesday and Thursday in Antalya - Turkey in the meeting of NATO chief diplomats dedicated to analyzing the situation in Afghanistan, Ukraine and strengthening NATO relationships; on this occasion, Aurescu will present Romania's stance on security developments in the eastern and southern neighborhood of the Alliance, a Foreign Mini

The four servicemen caught in a car bomb attack in Afghanistan on Thursday suffered superficial injuries, National Defence Minister Mircea Dusa said on Thursday, while participating in an anniversary ceremony of two battalions.

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Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania and Macedonia are set to sign a agreement on their joint participation in the new NATO-led mission in Afghanistan.

The defence ministers of the countries will shortly sign the technical contract on deploying troops in a joint unit in a mission codenamed Resolute Support, which launched in January.

Turkey's Parliament has approved a motion authorizing the government to send Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) troops to Afghanistan as part of NATO's new Resolute Support mission.