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U.S. rejects calls to slow Afghan withdrawals

Afghan troops via AFP

WASHINGTON — The White House Wednesday promptly rejected a call by three top senators for a halt to the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan following a spate of insider attacks on NATO forces. Republicans John McCain and Lindsey Graham, and independent senator Joe Lieberman, called for a “strategic pause”…

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French army hands over key province to Afghan forces

A French soldier watches an Afghan military vehicle in Afghanistan's Kapisa Province, via AFP

The French military officially handed over control of the key Afghan province of Kapisa to local forces on Wednesday. The transfer is an important stage in France’s withdrawal from the war-torn country, which new President Francois Hollande has accelerated by ordering the return of troops by the end of 2012,…

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