Violence across Afghanistan is on the rise as US and NATO troops formally begin their withdrawal. DW talks to journalist Ali Latifi about the pullout and how people in the country feel about it.
home worried 1st the alliances largest member the united states announced a troop pullout without consulting its allies then another alliance member turkey marched into the syrian northeast despite the vehement objections of berlin and paris they re worried it threatens european security. but does all this add up to a threat or just a blip in nato s history nato in germany insisted today in berlin that the alliance is still alive and well even if we do have a problem. even if we do disagree from the german perspective nato is very much in our interest it s our security alliance had been. for its part berlin has been signaling an increase commitment to the alliance visiting trainee soldiers defense minister and a good outcome karrenbauer said she s in favor of making nato s 2 percent spending target mandatory she least is optimistic about nato even as other alliance members
of nato s most important members has spoiled the party in a historic week for the alliance emanuel mccall is calling. to question some of nato s founding principles. in a magazine interview the french president said the mutual defense pact was in danger of breaking down. he said what we are currently experiencing is the brain death of nato and you have no coordination whatsoever of strategic decision making between the united states and its nato allies its last month s events in syria that have worried 1st the alliances largest member the united states announced a troop pullout without consulting its allies in another alliance member turkey marched into northern syria despite the fact he meant objections of berlin and paris they re worried it threatens european security. but does this all add up to a threat or just a blip in nato history nato and germany insisted in berlin that the alliance is
u.s. troop pull out. and the united states staying in the lead. there was a kurdish defense force leader who tweeted saying for five months there have been joint intel operations on the grou ground. the president did give credit to russia, turkey, syria and iraq. it was an aside, max, that the syrian kurds were part of this operation. the president says this is big. this is bigger than, you know, the killing of anybody else and that this, indeed, strangles the caliphate. it s detrimental to isis. take a listen. al-baghdadi was on the run for many years long before i took office. in my direction as commander and
it was being planned and the intelligence was being firmed up. then as you get close to execution, you have to start allowing for a little bit wider circle because you have to deal with the actual execution of it, in this case air space concerns and in the aftermath in terms of explaining it. my guess would be they didn t inform russia or turkey, you know, as it was getting ready to be launched. probably just before the aircraft entered spaces that they needed to enter is my guess they would have delayed that to a maximum to protect security. the president did say there was an informant of russia in that air space issue. the president said there really was no correlation between the locating of al bakr and this u.s. troop pullout from syria. no real correlation here, but do you see that in some way there was an assist by u.s. troops