UK death toll does not stop Afghan war

Responding to the Labour leader Ed Miliband at prime minister’s Questions, Cameron said the decade-old Afghan war “does remain vital to our national security”, while British military’s death toll in Afghanistan has topped 404 since it joined the US-led invasion of the country in 2001.

“We’re there to prevent that country being a safe haven for al-Qaeda from where they might plan attacks on the UK or our allies. Our task is simple – it is to equip the Afghan government… with the capability and capacity to take care of their own security without the need for foreign troops on their soil,” he said.

Today, Britain’s Ministry of Defense (MoD) announced that five British soldiers from 3rd battalion the Yorkshire Regiment and another from 1st Battalion the Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment were killed when their armored vehicle was caught in a explosion in northwest of Durai Junction in Helmand Province.

Britain, which has some 9,500 troops in Afghanistan, intends to withdraw its soldiers from the country by the end of 2014 as the US-led alliance has largely failed to establish security in the country devastated by decades of civil war.

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