NATO has taken over control of a critical mission to train the Afghan army and police. The existing US training personnel will merge with the new mission under a single NATO command.
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown (pictured) said in a speech Monday that he wanted London to host a meeting to discuss a handover to Afghan forces as early as 2010.
A rocket attack on a crowded marketplace in north-eastern Afghanistan on Monday killed 10 civilians and wounded 28 others as a French general attended a meeting of tribal elders nearby, French and Afghan officials say.
A growing majority of Britons want British troops to pull out of Afghanistan within 12 months, a poll released Saturday shows, as a NATO commander spoke out to say troops should get working with local communities.
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The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force said four US servicemen were killed in southern Afghanistan on Monday when two helicopters operated by NATO-led troops collided in mid-air.
Defence Minister John Faulkner said Australia will seek a pull-out of its troops from Afghanistan in the "shortest time-frame", admitting the move would compromise a US push for military reinforcements in the war-torn country.
France will not send "a single soldier more" to fight the bloody conflict in Afghanistan though troops already deployed as part of the NATO-led coalition will remain there, French President Nicolas Sarkozy told a newspaper on Thursday.
