Plans for troops to withdraw in 2014 are set by Britain, to withdraw 9,500 troops. The US begins to reduce their numbers as well. Source:http://www.telegraph.co.uk
/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan
/9281562/Nato-sets-irreversible-roadmap-to-withdrawing-troops-from-Afghanistan.html
A US soldier calls for an air strike on the hills surrounding Barge Matal in the eastern Nūristān province, Afghanistan, July 2009. Source:http://www.britannica.com
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istan-War
Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. Source:http://www.sbs.com.au/ne
ws/article/2011/10/07/timeline-wa
r-afghanistan
U.S. soldiers waiting to be evacuated by helicopter after their armoured vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device, Afghanistan, 2009. Source:http://www.britannica.com
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istan-War
Local villagers receive humanitarian aid from the Bagram Provincial Reconstruction Team in the village of Nijrab in the Kapisa Province of Afghanistan Jan. 14, 2008. Source:http://commons.wikimedia.
org/wiki/File:Humanitarian_aid_Af
ghanistan_2008.jpeg
Anti-Taliban fighters observing U.S. bombing of the cave sanctuaries of the al-Qaeda terrorist organization in the Tora Bora mountains of Afghanistan on December 16, 2001. Source:http://www.britannica.com
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istan-War
US Air Force B-52 Stratofortress drops bombs in an attack on Afghanistan in 2001. Source:http://www.britannica
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pic/1686268/Afghanistan-War
A British soldier who encountered a Taliban gunman using a child as a shield decided to get shot himself rather than risking the child's life and taking a shot at the man. Lance Corporal Craig Murfitt gives first aid to an Afghan girl. Source:https://www.gov.uk/govern
ment/news/soldiers-nerves-of-steel-save-afghan-childs-life
Afghan villagers gather at a house destroyed in an apparent NATO raid. Source:http://articles.latimes.com/
2013/feb/19/world/la-fg-wn-afghan-civilian-deaths-drop-20130219
The aftermath of a Taliban roadside bombing in Sepetember 2008. An Afghan policeman consoles a relative of the provincial governor who was killed along with three others in a roadside bombing carried out by the Taliban in Paghman, west of Kabul. Source:http://www.britannica.com
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