<h3>What are the United nations doing to help Afghanistan?</h3>
what is their goal with afghanistan and what projects are underway to achieve them?
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<p><i>Answer by The Lost Commando</i><br/>The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) is a NATO-led security mission in Afghanistan established by the United Nations Security Council on 20 December 2001. It is engaged in the War in Afghanistan (2001–present).
ISAF was initially charged with securing Kabul and surrounding areas from the Taliban, al Qaeda and factional warlords, so as to allow for the establishment of the Afghan Transitional Administration headed by Hamid Karzai.
In October 2003, the UN Security Council authorized the expansion of the ISAF mission throughout Afghanistan, and ISAF subsequently expanded the mission in four main stages over the whole of the country. Since 2006, ISAF has been involved in more intensive combat operations in southern Afghanistan, a tendency which continued in 2007 and 2008. Attacks on ISAF in other parts of Afghanistan are also mounting.
As of January 2009, its troops number around 55,100.There are troops from 26 NATO, 10 partner and 2 non-NATO / non-partner countries, Troop contributors include Denmark, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Turkey, Ireland, Poland and most members of the European Union and NATO also including Australia, New Zealand, Azerbaijan and Singapore.
The intensity of the combat faced by contributing nations varies greatly, with the United States, United Kingdom and Canada sustaining substantial casualties in intensive combat operations.
Also, they are there to help curb the illegal Opium growing industry.
THESE ARE NOT MY WORDS; THEY ARE FROM WIKIPEDIA.</p>
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U.S. Army and Air Force personnel and local children play soccer at the Nangarhar Provincial Reconstruction Team Forward Operating Base in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Nov. 9, 2007. The Nangarhar PRT is a joint team of U.S. Air Force Airman, Army Soldiers and representatives from the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, responsible for helping the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan improve security, governance and promote reconstruction. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Joshua T. Jasper) <a href="http://www.army.mil">www.army.mil</a></p>
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