NATO’s top commander has announced NATO countries are sending thousands of more troops to Afghanistan to help fight the Taliban. Meanwhile the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan has now reached about 20,000 — the highest number of U.S. forces in the country since the Taliban government was toppled nearly five years ago. On Wednesday Afghan President Hamid Karzai addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

• Hamid Karzai: “… Military action of Afghanistan alone therefore will not deliver our shared goal of eliminating terrorism. We must look beyond Afghanistan to the sources of terrorism, we must destroy terrorist sanctuaries beyond Afghanistan. We must dismantle the elaborate networks in the region that recruit, indoctrinate, train, finance, arm and deploy terrorists.”