name: International Security Assistance Force
text: ISAFâ€™s creation was mandated in Security Council Resolution 1386. The Bonn Agreement called an international security force in Kabul with the explicit possibility of expansion. Despite appeals for this expansion to the countryside outside Kabul, by Karzai and the UN, it was resisted by the US, which apparently feared it would interfere with its priority of hunting al-Qaeda and Taliban â€˜targetsâ€™. â€“ NATO took command of ISAF in August 2003, and peacekeepers moved north in 2004 and west the following year â€“ ISAFâ€™s mandate was extended outside Kabul on 13th October 2003 by Security Resolution 1510.
  
  â€œMission: Conduct military operations in the assigned area of operations to assist the Government of Afghanistan in the establishment and maintenance of a safe and secure environment with full engagement of Afghan National Security Forces, in order to extend government authority and influence, thereby facilitating Afghanistanâ€™s reconstruction and contributing to regional stability.â€ (from press release 10th November)
  
  <B>Troop contributing nations:</B>
  
  <I>(as of Nov 10th 2006, areas of chief responsibility in brackets)</I>
  
  Albania 30
  Australia 200
  Austria 5
  Azerbaijan 20
  Belgium 340
  Bulgaria 150
  Canada 2500 (Kandahar)
  Croatia 100
  Czech Republic 100
  Denmark 300
  Estonia 90
  Finland 90
  France 975
  Macedonia 120
  Germany 2700 (Kunduz, Faizabad)
  Greece 170
  Hungary 200 (Baghlan)
  Ireland 10
  Italy 1800 (Herat)
  Latvia 30
  Lithuania 140 (Ghor)
  Luxembourg 10
  Netherlands 2000 (Uruzgan)
  New Zealand 100 (Bamyan)
  Iceland 15
  Norway 320 (Faryab)
  Poland 160
  Portugal 150
  Romania 750
  Slovakia 60
  Slovenia 50
  Spain 650 (Badghis)
  Sweden 200
  Switzerland 5
  Turkey 460 (Wardak)
  United Kingdom 6000 (Helmand)
  United States 11,800 (Sharana, Qalat, Ghazni, Bagram, Gardez, Jalalabad, Mether Lam, Asadabad, Nuristan, Panjshir, Khost, Farah)
  
  http://www.afnorth.nato.int/ISAF/