NATO defence ministers confirmed, during a meeting of the NATO mission Resolute Support nations here on Thursday, enduring support for Afghanistan. The meeting, attended by Afghan Acting Minister of Defence Masoom Stanezkai, reviewed the security situation and the first six months of the Resolute Support mission.

The US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putting discussed Thursday, via phone, the global efforts to defeat the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the developments in Ukraine.

The United Nations said on Wednesday that around a quarter of Congolese militia group the Patriotic Revolutionary Forces of Ituri (FRPI) had been “neutralised” after a three-week military operation.