{"id":24136,"date":"2026-10-18T06:30:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T06:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/18\/nato-afghanistan-mission-five-countries-active\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T06:30:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T06:30:29","slug":"nato-afghanistan-mission-five-countries-active","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/18\/nato-afghanistan-mission-five-countries-active\/","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth says only five NATO countries were actively involved in Afghanistan mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that in NATO&#8217;s mission in Afghanistan, about five member countries of the alliance actively took part in military operations, and among them only one or two played a major role in combat engagements.<\/p>\n<p>According to Hegseth, being part of a military alliance does not simply mean raising a flag; countries must also have a strong army, advanced equipment and the ability to carry out effective military operations in order to make a real contribution to missions.<\/p>\n<p>He added in a speech at the University of Tennessee that nearly 50 countries participating in the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) mission had their flags displayed at NATO&#8217;s office in Kabul, but in practice only five countries made a significant contribution to military operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Hegseth says only five NATO countries actively took part in military operations in Afghanistan, with just one or two in combat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-security-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}