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UK to ask allies for 5000 more troops in Afghanistan
Nov 13th, 2009 - Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Friday Britain was trying to persuade its military allies fighting Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan to send 5,000 more troops.
Gordon Brown vows to fight Taliban in Afghanistan but public support falters
Nov 5th, 2009 - guardian.co.uk
Gordon Brown will today pledge not to "walk away" from Afghanistan in the wake of the deaths of six British soldiers this week and mounting polling evidence that public support for the war is crumbling.Afghan villagers say NATO strike kills 9 civilians but authorities say only Taliban killed
Nov 5th, 2009 - ChicagoTribune
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - An overnight rocket strike by international forces killed nine civilians, including at least three children, villagers said Thursday. Local Afghan authorities said they had no reports of civilian deaths.
The UN in Afghanistan
Nov 5th, 2009 - BBC NEWS
After the fall of the Taliban in 2001, Afghanistan was a nation in tatters - in need of basic relief, reconstruction and political and civil development. The following...
Hamid Karzai reaches out to 'Taliban brothers' in Afghanistan
Nov 3rd, 2009 - Telegraph
He promised an inclusive government and said he would "eradicate the stain of corruption" as his foreign backers pressured him to clean up his regime.
In a televised speech...



