i was told the roads would be closed and the area sealed off by government forces after the attack. it was time for me to leave charkh. >> when the us and natoithdraws most of its troops from afghanistan, the taliban will, despite over a decade of war, still be here. the key question is what will happen on the ground after the draw-down? the answer might be that i've already seen it - it's basically already happening. a fight for power - on the battlefield with bullets and in the towns and villages, for local support. >> what is likely is this sort of thing continuing for the next four or five, six seven years,. areas in which the taliban have de facto control surrounding small afghan outposts and continuing to fight perhaps not a lot of territory changing hands. and as always civilians will be caught up in the middle >> and so what we're most likely going to see is a stalemate, two sides fighting each other with not one side winning which is not a good thing for peace. >> watch more "faultlines" on demand or visit aljazeera.com/faultlines. >> the cast sytem is alive and well in america >> a city divided >> this is the third shooting in 24 h

as the us and nato prepares to pull out most of their forces later this year, i travelled here to try to see what life is like in areas of afghanistan under the rule of the taliban. after days of negoio

and the headlines to all of the global top stories, aljazeera.com. >> just an hours drive from kabul, is charkh district, afghanistan. as the us and natos to pull out most of their forces later this year, i travelled here to try to see what life is like in areas of afghanistan under the rule of the taliban.

the end of this edition of "inside story." thanks for being with us. michael tobin as well. in washington i am ray suarez. >> just an hours drive from kabul, is charkh district, afghanistan. as the us and natos to pull out most of their forces later this year, i travelled here to try to see what life is like in areas of afghanistan under the rule of the taliban. after daysne

the worst year ever. more than 4,600 soldiers and police have been killed and thousands woundss. casualties are so high, because the afghan troops don't have the nato support they usedwe are limited. we have a lot of challenges. and the biggest challenge is the air force indulgence, but we have enough to work on it. >> reporter: the nato withdraw has allowed al qaeda to reestablish training bases and taking large parts of the country side. >> insurgency is not beaten on the battlefield. an insurgency can only be overcome by reconciliation, and that's the process that the president has clearly laid out as the path of the future. but any reconciliation seems a long way off. in addition to the security concerns, the currently relies heavily on foreign aid and there is still no cabinet three months after the new president took office. nato says its mission is a success, but africans are concerned the gains of the past 13 years could be reversed. jennifer glasse, al jazerra kabul. but battle against isil is intensifying, u.s. coalition jets have launched more air strikes in syria and eye rook. with the important gains by iraq's army where the forces have regained several

and too extreme. even if they're sunni brother with the president in turkey, isis has to go down. and the fact they're a nato ally and not allowing us to use the bases to make it a safer, better more efficient operation is disgusting. >> the iraqi government has taken a lot of heat for the way it handled things. we have a relatively new government there. 50,000 ghost troops. we stopped paying them now and trying to show they're pointing out corruption. i wonder how much is -- your reporting is real. >> yeah. it's rampant. it's absolutely ridiculous. the amount of corruption. every dollar that flows over there estimates 30 to 40 cents is somehow lining the pockets of various people. everything from defense contract ripoffs to military people showing up and saying, you know, they have more soldiers under their command than they're providing. that's why you see the military eroding. the corruption is endemmic in that part of the world. fortunately the u.s. government seems to have figure it out we're focussing on mauler fighting units and direct training of smaller groups. you end up up with people lying. when they lie at the different

the worst year ever. more than 4,600 soldiers and police have been killed and thousands wounded. casualties are so high because the afghan troops don't have the nato support they used >> we are limited. we have a lot of challenges and the biggest challenge is the air force, the intelligence. we have enough to work on it. >> reporter: the withdrawal has allowed al-qaeda to reestablish training basis in cunar prove incident and taken control of large parts of the country side in many provinces. an insurgency is not beaten on the battlefield. an insurgency can only be overcome. >> that's the process that the president laid out as the path in the future. >> any reconciliation seems a long way off. in addition to the security concerns, the country relies heavily on foreign aid. there is no cabinet three months after the president took. nato says its mission is a success. afghans are concerned the gains of the past 13 years could be reversed. jennifer glasse, al jazeera, kabul. >> in afghanistan, cost the united states $1 trillion. it ends with the deadliest year on record for civilians, nearly 3,200 have been killed this year. they are among the nearly 20,000 civilian d

the [ inaudible ] against taliban to make them weak. because the nato force including the government they want to find something and to use against the taliban [ inaudible ] there is al-qaeda, and nowadays they say daesh came to afghanistan. >> the 160,000 people have been forced to live in refugee camps in india. after 80 villagers were killed last week by fighters who are fighting for independence from india. faiz jamil went to one such camp. >> reporter: this girl and her brother only have each other right now. most of their family was killed when armed men entered their village. >> translator: i was getting water just outside of the village when i heard the gunshots. at first i thought it was a fire cracker for christmas, then i went home to find my mother was on the ground. she had been shot. >> reporter: nine other family members were killed. she escaped with her brother. everyone here has a similar story, a friend neighbor or family member killed. an impromptu school tries to bring back some normality for these children. almost all of them belong to the ethnic tribe targeted by a grouped of armed ethnic bourques, who have been fightin

the worst year ever. more than 4600 soldiers and police have been killed and thousands wounded. casualties are so high because the afghan troops don't have the nato support they used to. >> everything, we are limited we have a lot of challenges and the biggest challenge is air force, isr intelligence assets, but we have enough to work on it. >> reporter: the nato withdrawal has allowed al qaeda to reestablish are training bases in kunar province and in other areas of the provinces. >> insurgency can only be overcome by what president ghani has laid out in the future. >> the country relies heavily on foreign aid and there's still no cabinet three months after the new president took office. nato says its mission is a success. but the gains of the past 13 years could be reversed. jennifer glasse, al jazeera kabul. >> while nato's mission in afghanistan has cost the utle more thanunitedstates more than $3 trillion, there are more than 20,000 civilian deaths recorded by the u.n. since 2009, 3500 foreign soldiers and 4,000 foreign troops have also been killed. president barack obama has approved a wider role for his soldiers but the afghan government hasn't confirmed an

the i.e.d.s or equipment to give us early warning like e.c.m.s and others, but still we are doing better, but suicide attacks, i.e.d.s the biggest weapon the enemy loses against us. >> reporter: this week natothe form he end of its combat mission but the taliban says the fighting isn't over. >> translator: this war will continue until america and the west completely leaves afghanistan. changing the name or a tight is not important for us, as long as the for earn forces are in our country, we will continue fighting. >> reporter: and the afghans bear the. front brunt of that fighting, a doctor that treats hundreds of them a year beings says not only do the security forces need training, many of the police are harenheroin users. >> most of them are addict the as we can see in our hospital, more than 50% of police are addicted. so how can we see that they will ever create security in the future. >> reporter: this year the taliban has taken large parts of the countryside across afghanistan and al qaeda is reestablishing its training camps in the east, nato's combat role may be ending but its initial mission is far from accomplished. general enterjennifer glasse, al jazerra kabul. >>> the italian

used by the u.s.-led nato coalition in afghanistan targeted not only high-level commanders of the taliban, but mid and lower-level operatives and even drug dealers. the secret documents, at least some of which came from nsa whistleblower edward snowden span from 2009 and 2011. according to the german newsmagazine der spiegel which reviewed them, they show targeted killings were -- "not just viewed as a last resort to prevent attacks, but were in fact part of everyday life in the guerilla war in afghanistan." in one case, a young boy was killed and his father injured by a british helicopter pilot who was targeting a suspected mid-level taliban commander.

the country, they left he willman province in october, so no nato forces down there. the afghan security forces very much on their own, without the support they used to get for logistickical support, and air support. it is just two weeks before nato forces completely pull out, a small force will remain, about 13,000 nato soldiers will remain to train and assess afghan security forces, but the new president afghani recognizes that the biggest challenge for his new government is keeping the people of afghanistan safe. >> the european parliament adopted a resolution supporting palestinian statehood in principle. the home of the european parliament is in france. >> the vote was a clear majority for the resolution, calling for recognition of palestinian statehood, but of course, that was conditional recognition. what some people on the left in the european parliament wanted was simple recognition of palestinian statehood, but in the end, there was a compromise text, which said that they supported palestinian state hood and a two state solution, which should go hand-in-hand with the development of peace talks, of negotiations between israel and palestinians. basically, answering the concern

the difficulties and challenges that nato has had to face. and what is ahead. in one way or another we have been tested by those who want to divide us, or cause us to retreat to the commitments we have made to one another, both in and beyond the nato arena, we have been called to respond to aggression, and to conflict. to law lessness, and deception. to violent extremists and epidemic disease. plenty of challenges for nato, and these operations cost money, of course. >> of course, and there has been growing con coughny and military commanders to get the leaders of governments to put their hands in the pockets and start to back the funding of greater defense spending. john kerry reiterated that in his news conference that we just heard from. he said basically twenty-first security cannot be done on the cheap, it is going to take a while, and europe is coming out of a long period of posterity, but what the message is that the threats and challenges are very real and immediate, and frankly the budge dare decisions can't be put off much longer. >> paul, thanks. >> the captain of the sunken cruise liner has been giving evidence in an ita

with the americans and nato ending combat operations next door in afghanistan, and a popular new leader confidently strolling on the world stage in india, what is next in pakistan. joining us next, chairman of the institute of public policy based in pakistan, also the former finance minister of pakistan. professor at georgetown's center for peace and security studies, and deputy director for south asia as the simpson center. has this been a water shed moment? has there been something different about this attack that separates it from others in the attack? >> i believe it is a water shed moment, and i believe we'll see a fundamental change in the way that pakistan is looking at terrorism. i'll give you three reasons for it. one is that there is a new guy who is in charge of pakistani armed forces. and he's much more --we had conversations with them, and they told us that that is his first priority to get rid of extremists. the second is th is a serious individual, i've known him for a very long time. we were together at the world bank, and they're serious about cultivating a positive relationship. and a third, something that not many people have commented on is pakista paki

the worst year ever. more than 4,600 soldiers and police have been killed and soldiers wounded. casualties are high. the afghan troops don't have the nato support they used to. >> we are limited. we have a lot of challenges, and the biggest is the air force, i.s.i.l. intelligence. we have enough to work on it. >> the n.a.t.o. withdrawal allowed al qaeda to re-establish training spaces in kuna province, and large parts of the countryside. >> insurgency is not beaten on the battlefield. it can only be overcome by reconciliation, and that is the process that president ashraf ghani laid out as the path in the future. >> any reconciliation seems a long way off. the country relies on foreign aid and there's no cabinet, three months after the new president took office. n.a.t.o. says the mission is a success, but there are concerns the gains of the past months could be reversed. >> kurdish fighters have been trying to drive away i.s.i.l. fighters from kobane. the kurds have been advancing in recent weeks. coalition forces hit i.s.i.l. targets and iraq near sinjar and mosul. the iraqi army is making gains against i.s.i.l. retaking strategic downs and heavy fighti

and again those four interests that are vital have drawn us back to deal with isis belatedly. we can get into more detail with the discussion with the strategy and tactics because of the nato meeting administration has a plan that whether that gets us there but there is so whole side of it that even on the iraqi side the issues will find the ground troops to take the territory back. retrained at 50,000 are to people under its control and an uneven with they need to consider that this will be a long term problems so we have to deal with it to mobilize 60 countries it is hard to get them all together but it is about the truism. but nonetheless tie-in is not on our side. given that situation the three new elements the problem of legitimacy but the grave questions of america's willingness to sustain this security role in the middle east which is a threat to everything i am not sure it would be better to take risks against these guys now rather than waiting. said robert was in syria and the administration had lips service but what happened? i suspect but i will rest my case right there. >> faq ambassador. >> from the american foreign policy is to think for the opportunity to talk today

continue to monitor the situation and report on what the relations between russia, the united states and nato mean for the situation in the world. i'm ali velshi, thank you for joining us>>> the cia torture report the agency director defendses what they call enhanced interrogation techniques used after 9/11. >> it is our considered view that the detainees who were subjected to enhanced interrogation techniques provided information that was useful. ♪ ♪ >>> hello and welcome to al jazerra. i am elizabeth in doha. also on on the program. sierra leone imposes a two-week lockdown in a remote region after a surge i

continue to monitor the situation and report on what the relations between russia, the united states and nato mean for the situation in the world. i'm ali velshi, thank you for joining us. >> avoiding a shutdown, congress barely passing a short-term spending bill but the battle over the deal continues on capitol hill. >> to me, it was something that is certainly regrettable. >> an unprecedented move by the head of the c.i.a. publicly admitting agents went too far in in derogate suspects but defending the actions taken after 9/11. >> much of

the worst year ever. more than 4,600 soldiers and police have been killed, and thousand wounded. casualties are high, because the afghan troops don't have nato support that they are used to. >> we are limited. we have a lot of challenges and the biggest challenge is the air force. i.s.i.l. intelligence. we have enough. >> the n.a.t.o. withdrawal has allowed al qaeda to re-establishtraining bases in the province. insurgency is not beaten on the battle fooled. an insurgency can only be overcome by reconciliation, and that is the process that has clearly been laid out as the path and the future. >> any reconciliation seems a long way off, in addition to the security concerns the country relies on foreign aid, and there's no cabinet, three months after the new president took office. n.a.t.o. said the mission is a success. but afghans are concerned the gains of the past 13 years could be reversed >>> president obama remarked on the end saying: earlier my colleague spoke with the former u.s. ambassador n.a.t.o. and asked if the united states involvement in afghanistan had been a successful mission. >> if you look at the metrics of anything you would look at in afghanistan i

the suicide attacks the ieds, loss lose against us. >> nato marked a formal end to its mission but the taliban says the fighting is not over. >> this war will continues in america andest completely leave afghanistan. change of name of the forces doesn't matter to us. >> not only do the security forces need more training, many of the police are heroin users. >> many are addicted. more than 50% of police are addicted so how can we see that they will have a--they will create a security in the future. >> the taliban has taken large parts of the country across afghanistan, and alqaida is reestablishing its training camps in the east. nato's combat role will be ending, but it's nato mission is far from accomplished. >> matt zeller is back with us. currently a fellow at the truman security project. he served in 2008 as combat adviser. matt, good to see you again. a couple of points raised in jennifer's piece here. let's start with the opium business. it now employees more afghans than the security forces. here is a two-part question for you. is opium the top crop in afghanistan for the foreseeable future in your view? part two of that is what will it take for afghanistan

the west and they're telling the world that you mess with us at your peril. >> how should be reacting to this? by we, mine the rest of the world? >> well, i think what you're seeing with natond europe and the united states, is the right response, which is not to back down, but not to unnecessarily provoke. we often use the term bear to describe russia. don't want to corner a bear because they'll strike out. but the fact of the matter is since the crisis with ukraine began over eight months ago, you have seen a general hardening of positions of france, and of germany, traditionally the more accommodationist countries. what that tells you is there is a cop census in the west and in europe that the only way to deal with russia is to deal firmly and with principles and that's why we're seeing the sanctions and upgrades of nato weapons, upgrades of nato defensive posture in europe, and it's going to continue. >> is it your sense that he is trying to put together pieces of the old soviet union, and if so, do you see a way he -- he can be stopped? >> yeah. i think there's a pattern here. in 2008, georgia talked about joining nato, and the same year, russia invaded georgia and too

and the final point imposing costs for aggression. so i think you've seen all of those pieces since the summer continue to accelerate. on the nato side, you have seen us continue to on land, sea and air provide physical reassurance to our allies. you've seen the security support for georgia and mall doe va and ukraine increase. you've seen now with the congressional support for the european readiness initiative that will allow us to preposition equipment as necessary and further strengthen the alliance. on the ukraine support side, we talked about $320 million plus the $1 billion loan guarantee for the u.s. support in 2014 very generous authorizations from the ukrainian freedom support act which allow us to do more in the coming period but of course conditioned on ukraine staying the reformed course. on the cost side, the very tough sanctions imposed jointly by the u.s. and the eu in september continued discussion about what more needs to be done there, but at the same time making clear that those sanctions can be rolled back if the protocols are implemented, if russia closes that border with ukraine, pulls back equipment and fighters in eastern ukrai

too close to russia, the pressure is put on russia because many of its neighbors are nato members and it's cornered in. >> it's not about we irritated russia, there are lots of useful idiots in the west that are saying, that was our fault. hitler had his interests, we should understand. putin was doing before second world war and saying what was -- he was saying before second world war. so the reality is that putin would have gone aggressive and no matter what, from the very beginning he proclaimed this was his goal to reassert soviet sphere of influence. and the west could either appease him, many would say, let's appease him, but appease him out to georgia then crimea happened. then ukraine has happened. >> you say if oil goes to $60 a barrel this will crush him. it will also put countries out of business that produce oil. >> there are two sides of it. in case of russia it will be a problem but in the long run it will force russia to be a normal economy and be just like a normal country. >> diversify? >> diversify and modernize. but basically this whole thing is the result of shale oil gas and shale oil boom. it has lots of props. but today, putin is on the offen

afghans and a lot of the american army expenditures are being saved and, instead, spent on equipping and supporting afghan national forces. since nato has left, taliban has massively increased usinga strong army. god willing, taliban and the terrorists will fail in our country. >> thank you to our partners for that. >>> just ahead, thousands of you stood up for her in our call to action months ago. this is a big story we're going to update you on. jada who spoke out against her alleged sex assault and cyberbullying may now have a shot at justice. a big development in her case, next. she's with us to discuss it. take a deeeeep breath in... and... exhale... aflac! and a gentle wavelike motion... ahhh-ahhhhhh. liberate your spine... ahhh-ahhhhhh...aflac! and reach, toes blossoming... not that great at yoga. yeah, but when i slipped a disk he paid my claim in just four days. ahh! four days? yep. see why speed matters, at aflac.com. >>> welcome back, everybody. bill cosby's daughter, evan, just spoken out in defense of her father for the first time. he told "access hollywood" he is the father you thought you knew. "the cosby show" was my today's reality show. thank you. that's all i w

and backing up the former colonial power, france, in that case. there were some reasons we did that. europe was way more important to us than vietnam. france, we needed as part of our nato in rebuilding europe against stalin and the communist threat. that ultimately churchill called the iron curtain. we came in on france's side while france was trying to keep in charge of vietnam. the japanese had taken over. here you have the vietnamese. from their point of view, they're fighting a 50-year war versus colonial french. then the japanese came in and threw out the french. then the french came back with our support. and now the french got beat, they got thrown out and we came back. between 1953 and 1964 we had not really dramatically escalated our presence in vietnam. we had supported the southerners who had split their country and refuse to participate in any countrywide elections. i think largely because they knew at least by the late 1950s they would have lost. ho chi minh, the communists had borne the greatest weight in beating the french and fighting back against the japanese and they pretty much had the nationalist cause wrapped around them. they probably would have w

and nato accuse each other of causing instability. all the way from ukraine to northern europe. nato with its military exercises and russia with military overflights. >> for more on all this, matthew chance joining use from moscow. so, matthew, it's almost typical to see russia, nato trading barbs back and forth but bring us up to speed on what exactly is being said. >> reporter: well, this is a nato meeting of foreign ministers from the member states. you can sigh from the pictures we've been bringing in those foreign ministers including the u.s. secretary of state john kerry have already started to arrive at nato headquarters in brussels to discuss the issues that affect the alliance. one of those issues, by the way is the threat from the south of the nato area, the threat posed by islamic states to countries like turkey which is, of course, a member of the nato alliance and, of course, its actionness syria and iraq but i think the focus of the talks as you rightly pointed out a moment ago is the threat or the perceived threat from russia, of course, there have been a huge upsurge in the number of flights and naval activity carried out by russian forces in international waters and air space but t

and culture to socialist countries, those socialist systems collapse. look at countries in eastern europe, poland, hungary, czechs, their systems clamsed, they're part of now nato and the european economy. >> joining usthe cuban capital, michelle, we heard from just about every politician in this country in the past 24 hours. we heard from just about every pundit in the past 24 hours. what are people saying about this move yesterday? that's the first question. the second question, who is this portrayed in the media down there? are cuban officials portraying it as victory over america? >> reporter: well, remember, there isn't much media here. go pick up a newspaper. it is pretty difficult. there's not much to see. only cuban government television. yesterday raul castro went on air about four minutes. what i am told is that people were surprised how bluntly and frankly he spoke about in a different tone than he haiyan the past, rather than talking the embargo, foreign devils, and how they're causing problems in cuba about opening a dialogue with the united states. so that's been seen as pretty dramatic. the cuban government is not having a huge rally, not going to sponsor a big event where they bus in

nato as the country's top military threat. in the doctrine, putin said that nato forces near russia's border could be used for political and militaryed some to contemplate if putin is setting the stage for further military escalation in his region or perhaps even world war iii? fox news strategic analyst ralph peters is here to discuss this and other international affairs and strategies. good to see you. >> great to see you, doug. >> what do you make of this new doctrine announced on friday? >> it is certainly serious but it is two-thirds for domestic consumption. if you follow the russian media, which has a very different world view than our media does, a little close to msnbc, but other than that it is really a situation where putin has created a fantasy world for the russians. and the rugs media play along. even though they've got some smart journalists, they're very cynical. they do what they're told to do. and so if you are a prisoner of the russian media the average russian citizen, you're being bombarded with the idea that america's out to destroy russia europe is america america's lackey trying to destroy russia. now they'r

the enemy uses against us. >> reporter: this week nato marks a formal end to its mission. but the taliban says the fighting isn't over. >> translator: this war will continue until america andtely leaves afghanistan. changing the name or a title is not important for us as long as the foreign forces are in our country, we will continue fighting. >> reporter: and the afghans bear the brunt of that fighting. this doctor said not only do the security forces need more training many of the police are her -- heroin users. >> more than 50% of police are addicted, so how can we see that they will ever create the best security in the future. >> reporter: this year the taliban has taken large parts of the countryside across afghanistan, and al-qaeda is reestablishing its training camps in the east. nato's combat role may be ending, but it's initial mission is far from accomplished. >>> these are live pictures coming to us now from ramallah in the west bank. there you can see celebrations taking place people gathering to celebrate. the president will be attending this event, and joining the celebrations. it has been a remarkable year for the palestinians, a year that saw a return to co

and jim baker at the american academy. and we talked about this. it was not the kind of effort that should have been made to say, how else can we use nato. nato was our western alliance and remains that, but it has kind of come unraveled around the edges. it's not as unified as it once was. it was an incredibly important and potent force and facing the east and dealing with issues together, and not always perfectly, but it was the alliance. now it has a lot of parts to it, and they're often not greater than the sum of their parts, which they need to be. the other part of what we're watching here tonight is that it was so thrilling and hard to explain about how the dramatic people who had such a terrible 20th century, mostly self-induced wounds, then were divided. and you'd have people in the west who had cousins in the east. the people in the west had democracy, consumer goods, and hope. and when the wall came down, their cousins and the other fellow germans came through in acid washed jeans, two-cycle lottos and automobiles as if they had come from the moon to venus. they just couldn't believe what they were seeing. and so, it was one of

the us, however, will leave about 10,800 troops to advise, assist, and train afghan soldiers, nato forcesremain on the gown, as well. the taliban has warned the attacks will continue on government officials, the military, and also foreigners, including the media. in jerusalem, john huddy, fox news. >>> chaos on college campus, coming up there was a brawl that left student battered and bruised. plus, also, something heartwarming. couples struggling to become parents say they are finding miracles, it is happening in new jersey, there is a clinic making their families complete. that story coming up. and also take a close look. this does not happen very often. that is cool. would you look at all of that fog there. rare scene at the grand canyon, left a lot of tourists stunned. >>> you have heard that mantra over and over again, echoed throughout our country for weeks. this was a scene in new york city today, protesters angry about the deaths of two un armed black men at the hands of two white police officers in two separate incidents n our nation's capitol thousands walking along pennsylvania

the united states strategically and with nato because they fear russia. so it is true, given the end of the cold war we're not as indispensable in that strategic sense as we used to be. i'll concede that point, but that doesn't mean that we are not indispensable at all to them, particularly these new countries that depend on us. the last thing i would say, andon't mean to suggest, jim, that you're suggesting this. i think your analysis is much more subtle, but i do hear it from other people, is that we have to be aware of any "ism" because you start trying to create a doctrine almost always created by intellectuals, and it becomes something by which we can discuss among ourselves, the obama doctrine and the like. but at the end of the day, there's going to be so many things outlying the principles of the doctrine that they're not going to give you a lot of guidance, and i think that's true whether you're a conservative realist or a liberal one. >> thank you very much, kim. in addition to his article out there, he's writ and terrific new book called rebound, getting america back to great. so anyway, our last speaker is brian katulis who's been a bulwark of the

and for them it's been the worst year ever. more than 4600 soldiers and police have been killed and thousands wounded. the casualties are so high because nato didn't have the forbes it used to. >> we are limited. we are limited the big biggest limits is the affairs. we have enough to work on it. >> establishing bases on kunar province. large part of the country side in other provinces. >> an insurgent isn't beaten in the battlefield but by reconciliation and that is the process that president ghani has clearly laid out in the future. >> in addition to the security concerns the country relies heavily on foreign aid. and there's still no cabinet through three months after the new president took office. nato says it's miss is a success but afngz afghans are concerned the gains of the past 13 years could be lost. jennifer glasse, kabul. >>> in a video you're about to see you can see smoke rising over the syrian border town where kurdish fighters have been trying to drive away i.s.i.l. fighters for more than three months. the curds have been slowly advancing in recent weeks. coalition forces hit the towns of sinjar and mosul. the iraqi army is making gains against i.s.i.l. th

and criminal violence is extremely high -- >> the president did not give us the full number of forces and over general petraeus's objections drew hem earlier. >> the attacks on foreigners are strategically timed to cull -- and nato summit in brussels where afghanistan's new leaders urged the international community to stay. >> i pay tribute to more than 3,400 nato personnel who did the ultimate sacrifice of losing their lives. what brings us together is a compelling case of mutual interest. >> amidst the uptick in attacks, the afghan leaders has approved a ban on night raids in afghanistan as the u.s. reorganizes it's mission. >> what can you tell us about the white house's search for a new defense secretary? >> the name that is at the top of the short list we're told is former defense secretary ash carter who served under leon panetta and left last year, he's a yale educated rhodes scholar who has a background in physics and h . we're told not to expect an announcement tomorrow, but perhaps later this week. >> jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. jennifer, thank you. >>> a suspected wife and child of isis legaler al baghdadi are being held in lebanon. the two were taken into cust my about 11 days ago while ca

the u.s. and nato as top military threats to his country. erin mclaughlin has more for us from moscow. >> russian security analysts tell me they see this new doctrine as the kremlin's response to western sanctions and political statements on the situation in ukraine. and while calling it defensive in nature, the new doctrine identifies nato expansion and western military activities "on russia's doorstep as areas of deep concern." now, in previous doctrines, the focus had been the situation unfolding in central asia, but analysts tell me that the kremlin is essentially signaling that russia's response to nato and europe will be an area of primary concern in its long-term planning which will include the military buildup along russia's western border. now, nato issued a response saying that nato poses no threat to russia and its activities are purely defensive. it also said nato will continue to seek a constructive relationship with russia. but that russia is breaching international law in ukraine and undermining european security. another round of peace talks aimed at ending

have to do more, and i would love to see the relationship that turkey and knitl used to have slowly back together, if that is possible, so i think both united states, other members of nato, other partners in the region -- we cannot get discouraged or frustrated with some of the difficulties that turkey is dealing with. instead, we have to double down and try to work with them, and that means even through periods where they say and do things that i think many of us are not too happy about. big,are too strategic, too and they can be a source of positive change or a source of continuing difficulties, so let's try to work towards the former. say, an example of the kind of difficult, hard choices that we faced following the revolution and the overthrow egyptarak, and i went to shortly after mubarak fell, and iwent to to rear square -- square, and they were very relieved and feeling quite validated that their efforts had led to the overthrow of mubarak, so when i asked of them, so what do you do next? are you going to form a political party? are you going to run people for office in these elections eu demanded? no, we do not do politics." you have to do politics, and they loo

fact of the matter is we also want to get his basis, it's been pretty frustrating not able to use the basis that he has. this is a member of nato, lou, andaving difficulty. lou: i'm not nearly as impressed by that as i once was, let me be clear, general. nato looks like a paper tiger of immense proportions. we haven't responded in ukraine, we didn't respond in crimea. played for a fool by turkey. we haven't made a decision about how to destroy the islamic state and we've got nato allies involved in the so-called coalition effort. we're not doing well, are we, general? >> no, the strategy in syria, what we're trying to work out is improvement in it, start bombing assad's airpower, who is bombing the guys we're trying to had. they're killing the guys faster in syria than we can train them. we know we have a problem with the strategy in iraq. we said it many times. we have a weak hand, don't have people to make the difference, and the fact of the matter is this is going to get dragged out, and the longer you drag it out, it favors isis to be frank about it. here's another opportunity, i think to make progress in syria but looks like the adm

the ieds these things have been used against us. >> this week nato marks an end of its combat mission but the taliban says that the fighting is not over. >> this war will continue until america and west completely leaves afghanistan changing the name or a title is not important for us as long as the foreign forces are in our country we will continue fighting. >> and the afghans bear the brunt of at a fighting. a doctor who treats hundreds a year say not only do the security forces need more training, many of the police are heroin users. >> they're addicted, as we can see. more than 50% of the police are addicted. how can we say that they will take care of the future. >> this year the taliban has taken large parts of the countryside across afghanistan and alqaida is reestablishing its training camps in the east. nato's combat role may be ending but it's mission is far from accomplished. jennifer glasse kabul. >> the concern attack targeted a vehicle carrying the leader of the al-shabab. >>> allowing church services to take place the curfew was part of the state emergency put in place to help stop the spread of ebola. the virus has killed 8,000 people almost all of them in liberia

and potential military conflicts. joining us now retired general major robert scales, fox news military analyst. great to have you with us. let's start with the straightforward question, is there anything the united states and nato can do to stop the aggression of vladimir putin? >> no, not now. there's no unity of effort, there's no commitment on the part of the united states. there's no interest on the part of nato and going it alone. look, at the end of the day, nato is our creation, nato sustained through american involvement, and the nato alliance will do what american, what american military power leads them into, and right now in this country, there's no interest and frankly nato countries there's no interest, so putin generally has a run of the place in eastern europe, and so far in moldova and, of course, ukraine and the baltic states, he's already begun to infail the rate his neighbors. this is an attempt by vladimir putin to return to the wonderful days of the czarist era, and right now, there's nobody standing in his way. lou: so as we look at moldova voting to tell putin no, i love the democratic process which you tell a dictator that no is the answer. is moldova next? is it estonia? where does he g

us. we wish you the best. >> keep us in your prayers, thanks. >> for more on the changes facing the talibani government and the future, we are joined by former u.s. ambassador to nato, nicholas burns. he is the coeditor of the as pin institute's policy book, america's interests in south asia. ambassador, good to have you on the show. a reporter with the daly beast -- with the "the daily beast" spoke with a talibani commander who said it was a retaliation for killing children in large operations, launched against extremists in the tribal regions. do you think the massacre will backfire against the terrorists and lead them to combat terrorists more aggressively. >> i think today's horrendous event, the murder of the children by the pakistani taliban will rebound against the taliban, showing them for who they are, to be sin agle and brutal, uncaring for the lives of the kids. there has been shock around the world in every country, continent - from china to australia to the united states of america. i do think this is obviously a direct challenge by the pakistan taliban against the pakistani military, and i do think it's a challenge to the unity of pakistan itself. it