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Page last updated at 09:20 GMT, Wednesday, 18 February 2009

US troops on patrol in Afghanistan - 17/2/2009
US to boost troops in Afghanistan
President Obama authorises the deployment of 17,000 extra US troops to Afghanistan to "meet urgent security needs".
Obama's new Afghan strategy
US to include Afghans in review
Obama on Afghanistan

British soldier Raids seize £50m of Afghan heroin
British and Afghan troops have seized heroin and drug-making chemicals in Afghanistan worth more than £50m ($71m).

Afghan officers destroy opium poppies, 2007 Drug abuse hampers Afghan police
Sixty per cent of police in Afghanistan's Helmand province use drugs, according to British estimates obtained by the BBC.

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