NATO Tries To End The Fighting In Afghanistan In 2015

NATO decided on Saturday to hand over control of security in Afghanistan to Afghan forces by the end of 2014 and said that the NATO-led force could end combat operations before that date if the security situation was fairly good.

Some NATO officials fear an increase in violence could make it difficult to meet the schedule that Afghan President Hamid Karzai for a transfer of security, leaving a smaller number of foreign troops in a training role and support.

But Barack Obama has raised hopes target would be achieved by first saying that his goal was to stop the major U.S. combat operations in late 2014 to reduce the number of U.S. troops in the country."Today marks the beginning of a new phase of our mission in Afghanistan," said.

NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, a NATO summit in Lisbon with President of Afghanistan and 48 countries with troops in Afghanistan. "I do not anticipate the ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) troops in a combat mission beyond 2014, provided of course that the security situation allows us to move in a more favorable."

U.S. officials had doubted the goal for the end of combat operations, "said Obama decided the combat mission ends only when the U.S. completed a review of the war. But later, the president said he shared the objective of NATO.

"My goal is to ensure that by 2014 we have gone, the Afghans are taking, and an objective to make sure we're not involved in combat operations in this way are involved in the moment," Obama said during a conference press. Karzai also said he believed the transfer from the beginning of next year, could be completed in late 2014.

"because I think today's strong commitment of the international community." United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said, however, the transfer must be determined by the security situation and not by calendars. "There are no shortcuts to peace," he said.

PRESSURE ON OBAMA:

Obama said the anti-terrorist operations of al-Qaeda in the region was set to continue after 2014. 90000 130 000 and ISAF are Americans, and there are more than 20,000 other U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Rasmussen said that the new strategy does not mean that all of the 150,000 foreign troops would leave Afghanistan by the end of 2014, and said NATO does not reject the government.

Critics said setting the date would embolden the Taliban and the White House had been careful to refer to 2014 only as the date when Afghans would finally take the lead in security rather than as a target for the end of the U.S. combat mission.