Persekutuan pertahanan Atlantik utara NATO menempatan 35.000 tentara di Afganistan, tapi terdapat perselisihan dalam kelompok itu tentang apakah negara benua Eropa, termasuk Jerman, Prancis, Italia, dan Spanyol, sebaiknya menyumbang lebih banyak.
NATO has 35,000 troops in Afghanistan, but there have been disputes within the organisation over whether continental European countries including Germany, France, Italy and Spain should be contributing more.