{"id":255460,"date":"2016-07-12T09:02:41","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T09:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/pentagon-chief-carter-arrives-in-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2016-07-12T09:02:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T09:02:41","slug":"pentagon-chief-carter-arrives-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/pentagon-chief-carter-arrives-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon chief Carter arrives in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"85\">\n<p><strong>US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has arrived in Afghanistan to discuss security issues with President Ashraf Ghani and American commanders, in the wake of a decision by Washington and its NATO allies to keep thousands of foreign soldiers in the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Carter landed in Bagram air base outside Kabul on Tuesday and was scheduled to meet Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah later in the day.<\/p>\n<p>Meeting with Army General John W. Nicholson who commands American forces in the country was also on the Pentagon chief\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n<p>During last week\u2019s NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland, members of the US-led military alliance agreed to either slightly raise the number of their troops in Afghanistan or keep the current levels unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>The UK, for instance, announced that it will bump up its current troop level of 450 soldiers to 500.<\/p>\n<p>NATO leaders also agreed to provide around 352,000 Afghan security troops with up to $1 billion in annual funding over the next&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/07\/12\/474794\/Ashton-Carter-Bagram-Kabul-Afghanistan-Ghani-NATO\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has arrived in Afghanistan to discuss security issues with President Ashraf Ghani and American commanders, in the wake of a decision by Washington and its NATO allies to keep thousands of foreign soldiers in the country. Carter landed in Bagram air base outside Kabul on Tuesday and was scheduled to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-255460","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}