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US to send more troops to train Afghan forces: official
 
 
 
 
 
 
 AFP - Friday, March 27
WASHINGTON (AFP) - - President Barack Obama is planning to send an additional 4,000 US troops to Afghanistan to help train security forces there, US officials said on Thursday.
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The brigade would be deployed "later this year," a defense official told AFP, in a move that follows a decision last month to send 17,000 troops to join the 38,000-strong force already in Afghanistan.
 
 
 
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