US troops to be deployed south of Kabul as Taliban insurgency approaches Kabul
The great majority of a 4,000-strong brigade, due to arrive next month, will be stationed in provinces neighbouring Kabul, irather than in the south or east, which have seen the heaviest fighting.
Security around Kabul has dramatically worsened in the past 12 months. Taliban insurgents hold sway over large areas and often control major roads out of the city. Attacks on foreign and Afghan forces have risen steeply.
President Hamid Karzai has voiced frustration at the lack of progress in defeating the insurgency and called for coalition troops to focus their efforts on the border with Pakistan.
America is planning to send more than reinforcements of more than 20,000 soldiers to Afghanistan as troop levels in Iraq are cut. Britain may also increase its contingent, which presently numbers 8,000.
Telegraph | Ben Farmer | Sunday, December 7, 2008
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