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UK To Send More Troops To Afghanistan To Bolster Crumbling Regime

It was less than three ago that Prime Minister David Cameron announced ‘mission accomplished’ in Afghanistan, yet up to 100 more British soldiers are likely to be sent back to protect Kabul from a resurgent Taliban. Defense sources said the US had called on its allies to contribute more troops and that the UK was in discussions with NATO to settle on numbers, according to a report in the Telegraph RT reports: The news follows a flying visit to Kabul by UK Defence Secretary Michael Fallon on Thursday. He reportedly met with Afghan leaders to discuss the resurgent Taliban’s growing territorial gains. In the southern province of Helmand, where the doomed British mission began in 2006, the Islamist group was reenergized by Western occupation. The Taliban has since retaken or encroached into areas where hundreds of UK troops were killed or wounded, including Sangin, Lashkar Gah and the Kajaki Dam area. “It’s not a decision, but it is something that has been considered and still is. What we all do as an alliance in 2017 is fluid,” an anonymous defense source told the Telegraph on Thursday. In 2013, Cameron declared it was “mission accomplished” in Afghanistan as far as the [...]