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First time in 13 years: Afghanistan not on NATO agenda


BRUSSELS (AP) — The war in Afghanistan is in NATO’s rearview mirror.
For the first time in 13 years, the conflict was not on the meeting agenda as the alliance’s defense ministers gathered in Brussels Thursday.
Instead NATO members focused on the latest military conflicts facing the alliance — the threat of Islamic extremists flowing out of North Africa and the Russian-backed separatists battling Ukraine’s government forces along the country’s eastern border.
One reason the Afghanistan war was not included on the agenda, according to U.S. officials, was that the fledgling government in Kabul has yet to appoint a new defense minister. So …read more

Source: KXAN

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