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Afghanistan War News Updates -- January 1, 2012



U.S. Troop Deaths In Afghanistan War Fell In 2011 -- L.A. Times

Amid plans to withdraw from Afghanistan, U.S. officials speak of turning a corner in 2011. From the Taliban perspective, the Americans took fewer fatalities because they lost the taste for combat.

Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan — It was by no means a common occurrence. But in the year that just drew to a close, a day would often pass, sometimes several, without an American service member dying in Afghanistan.

For the first time in years, U.S. military deaths here declined in 2011. American and Taliban commanders have very different explanations, and very different views of what that means for Afghanistan in the new year and beyond.

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