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Following US President Barack Obama’s lightning trip to Afghanistan to set the withdrawal of US troops, now NATO has formalized processes to transition to Afghan security forces. They will soon be in charge of security for about 75% of the population, NATO and Afghan officials said. Still at this point, Afghan forces are not in the lead in areas where Taliban and Pakistan-based insurgents continue to fight NATO troops in daily battles. By next summer, they will have to take over. How exactly that will happen is unclear. Analysts warn about repeating history: it was the Soviet and US pull-out in 1979 from Aghanistan that created a power vacuum that incubated and grew Al-Qaeda.
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