America’s Longest War Moves Into 12th Year

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The insurgent movement taunted that coalition countries were competing to pull out early from the unpopular war, after a series of nations have this year announced a speeded up withdrawal.

But David Cameron insisted plans to train a capable Afghan army and police force to take control when foreign combat forces leave at the end of 2014 remained “on track”.

The international campaign in Afghanistan started on October 7, 2001, when America and Britain began airstrikes to topple the Taliban regime for harbouring Osama bin Laden.

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