Concluding their summit in Chicago, leaders of NATO's 28 member states agreed on a unified plan to gradually wind down the war in Afghanistan. The plan, which calls for Afghan security forces to take the lead in combat operations by the middle of 2013, sees all NATO combat forces withdrawn from the country by December 2014. While Afghanistan was the main topic at the summit, NATO leaders also reaffirmed their commitment to a ballistic-missile defense system. Experts call the plan ...

Concluding their summit in Chicago, leaders of NATO's 28 member states agreed on a unified plan to gradually wind down the war in Afghanistan. The plan, which calls for Afghan security forces to take the lead in combat operations by the middle of 2013, sees all NATO combat forces withdrawn from the country by December 2014. While Afghanistan was the main topic at the summit, NATO leaders also reaffirmed their commitment to a ballistic-missile defense system. Experts call the plan ...