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Afghanistan: March 18, 2003

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 NATO has offered to take over running ISAF. Currently, ISAF has about 5,000 troops, half of whom are German, stationed in Kabul. There is no agreement on expanding the number of ISAF troops or the territory that they would patrol. 

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