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Camp Leatherneck & Camp Bastion handed over to Afghan control
(Reuters) - British troops ended their combat operations in Afghanistan on Sunday as they and U.S. Marines handed over two huge adjacent bases to the Afghan military, 13 years after a U.S.-led invasion launched the long and costly war against the Taliban.Their departure leaves Afghanistan and its newly installed president, Ashraf Ghani, to deal almost unaided with an emboldened Taliban insurgency after the last foreign combat troops withdraw by year-end. At the U.S. Camp Leatherneck and Britain's Camp Bastion, which lie next to each other in the southwestern province of Helmand, troops lowered the American and British flags for the final time on Sunday and folded them away. The timing of their withdrawal had not been announced for security reasons. WaPo's subheadline "The handover from Marines and British troops is a dramatic signal that the 13-year war is near its end." But what about the Afghan war of all against all? Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-10-26 |
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