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Make no mistake we will defend our allies: US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter
If al Qaeda can operate in Afghanistan with increasing freedom, it may pose a greater security threat: Gen Nicholson
US forces in Afghanistan are due to be nearly halved to 5,500 from the current level of 9,800 by the start of 2017
More than 270,000 people have died in Syria since the conflict erupted in March 2011
Almost every day we are accused of making new horrible threats against NATO, Europe or the US, says Russian PM
Ittehad-e-Ulema-e-Afghanistan term negotiations in presence of foreign forces against 'Islamic injunctions'
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack near Bagram during a joint patrol of NATO and Afghan forces
Stoltenberg stressed this is not a war between the West and the Islamic world, but against 'extremism and terrorism'
US Secretary of State John Kerry's statement came after NATO invited Montenegro to join
The small Balkans country of just over 600,000 people won its independence in 2006