Pfc. Drake Comfort of Chicago keeps watch at a base in Kala Gush, Afghanistan. Russia has offered logistical help to NATO troops in the Central Asian nation. Spencer Platt / Getty ImagesAfghanistan Joins US 'War On Terror' Review -- Yahoo News/AFP
KABUL (AFP) – Afghanistan will join a major US review of the "war on terror", President Hamid Karzai announced Sunday amid tensions between the allies about the fight against growing Taliban-led unrest.
Karzai made the announcement with US envoy Richard Holbrooke, with whom he held talks late Saturday, as criticism from Afghanistan mounts over civilian casualties in US-led operations against Taliban and Al-Qaeda operatives.
Holbrooke is on a regional tour to collect views for the review, ordered by President Barack Obama amid increasing alarm about Islamic extremism in the region seven years after the United States launched its "war on terror" here.
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