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EXCLUSIVE: Afghans plan to double special forces as threats grow

Reuters 29 Mar 2017

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Afghanistan is beefing up its elite special forces units, which have been badly stretched by two years of rushing from crisis to crisis to hold back an escalating Taliban insurgency. Samantha Vadas reports.