Afghanistan–United States relations

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.

President Barack Obama is to meet March 24 with his Afghan counterpart Ashraf Ghani, who has asked Washington for "flexibility" on the pace of US troop withdrawals from the war-torn country.
      

The Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) have handed over Camp Do?an to Afghan government forces, marking its departure from the base it has been using in Kabul since 2002.

Turkish Maj. Gen. Mehmet Cahit Bak?r and Gen. Azizuddin Ayar, a representative of the Afghanistan Defense Ministry, as well as other Afghan officials, attended the ceremony.

The government this week launched proceedings for the issuing of visas to Afghan interpreters who worked with a Greek military unit participating in a NATO-led operation in Afghanistan.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu has announced that the number of Turkish troops stationed in Afghanistan will be increased from 700 to 1,100.

"We will continue training and equipping Afghan security forces," Çavu?o?lu said on Jan. 19 in an address to the International Junior Diplomats Program.

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.

The war in Afghanistan came to a formal end on Dec. 28, 2014, with a flag-lowering ceremony in Kabul. The symbolic act, which was held under heavy security measures due to threats of an attack, marked the conclusion of the U.S.-led Operation Enduring Freedom and the start of Operation Resolute Support.

President Barack Obama said "the longest war in American history has come to a responsible conclusion."

Obama has welcomed the end of U.S. combat operations in Afghanistan. The war came to a formal end Dec. 28 with a ceremony in Kabul.

The US and its NATO allies on Sunday marked the formal end of the war in Afghanistan where a new international training and support mission is set to begin.

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NATO will hold a ceremony in Kabul later Sunday formally ending its war in Afghanistan, officials said, after 13 years of conflict that have left the country in the grip of worsening insurgent violence.