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12,000 NATO troops to stay in Afghanistan through next year

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KABUL through 2016.

At the end of a two-day meeting of foreign ministers from NATO states in Brussels, the alliance secretary-general praised Afghan troops’ continued steady progress.

However, capability gaps and challenges for the nascent security personnel persisted, Jens Stoltenberg told a news conference at the NATO headquarters.

In a move to keep the war-torn country from again becoming a terrorist safe haven, allies approved continuing the Resolute Support mission and funding Afghan forces through 2020.

In October, US . . .

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