Afghanistan to Seek $25 Billion Security Funding at NATO Talks

Afghanistan’s government will seek an annual $5 billion of funding over the next five years from the U.S. and its allies at a North Atlantic Treaty Organization Summit this week to help finance its security forces.

Afghanistan will present a plan at the July 8 to 9 conference in Warsaw, which will also raise issues related to governance, security and terrorism, the country’s National Security Adviser Mohammad Haneef Atmar told reporters in the capital, Kabul, on Monday. President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah will attend the summit, he said.