UK to send 500 extra troops to Afghanistan

2009/11/30 13:39:58 @Reuters: World News

LONDON (Reuters) - 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 on Monday. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=XmZIUvvOfzs:Sej_NoRDUc0:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=XmZIUvvOfzs:Sej_NoRDUc0:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=XmZIUvvOfzs:Sej_NoRDUc0:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=XmZIUvvOfzs:Sej_NoRDUc0:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=XmZIUvvOfzs:Sej_NoRDUc0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/XmZIUvvOfzs" height="1" width="1"/
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