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Mon 11 Nov 2009UK to send more troops to Afghanistan
Britain will send 500 more soldiers to Afghanistan in December as part of a broader surge in Nato-led troop levels to tackle worsening violence and train Afghan forces, prime minister Gordon Brown said today.
Mr Brown's confirmation of an earlier, conditional pledge comes a day before US president Barack Obama is expected to announce 30,000 more troops to fight the Taliban and train Afghans so that foreign forces can eventually be withdrawn.
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