A coalition of NATO-led troops in Afghanistan will leave the country in coordination with a planned US withdrawal by September 11.<br />'' <br />''US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said this, ahead of a formal announcement of the end of two decades of fighting.<br />''<b> </b><br />''In a televised statement U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said today in Brussels that it was time for NATO allies to make good on their mantra that allies went into Afghanistan together and would leave together.<br />''<b> </b><br />''Around 7,000 non-US forces from mainly NATO countries, also from Australia, New Zealand and Georgia, outnumber the 2,500 U.S. troops in Afghanistan, but still rely on U.S. air support, planning and leadership for their training mission.<br />''<b> </b><br />''NATO defence and foreign ministers will hold a video conference tonight after the US said it was planning to withdraw its forces from Afghanistan by September 11 this year.<br />'' <br />''NATO allies including Germany had been waiting for Biden to decide whether the US would stick to a May 1 deadline to withdraw under a deal struck between the administration of former US leader Donald Trump and the Taliban. <br />''<b> </b><br />''An integral part of NATO's current mission, Resolute Support, is to train and equip Afghan security forces fighting the Islamist Taliban, which was ousted from power by a US invasion in late 2001 and has since waged an insurgency.<br />'' <br />''<span style="color: #222222;">With non-US troop numbers reaching as high as 40,000 in 2008, Europe, Canada and Australia have moved in tandem with the United States in a mission also providing long-term funding to rebuild Afghanistan despite the resurgence of Taliban-led violence and endemic official corruption in the country.</span><br />