US allies to send more troops to Afghanistan

A NATO spokesman said members of the International Security Assistance Force have committed 6-thousand-8-hundred more troops to Afghanistan. The decision was made at a force generation conference on Monday.

The spokesman, James Appathurai, said the allies also pledged support for a training mission involving 150 army and 340 police teams.

The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force is made up of troops from 44 countries, including 28 NATO members. Total members of the force have now surpassed 83-thousand. Of those, almost half are non-U.S. forces.