Afghan casualties on battlefield at unsustainably high level - U.S. general - Yahoo News India
Lieutenant General Joseph Anderson, a top commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan, said 4,634 Afghan security personnel were killed in action this year, compared with 4,350 in 2013, despite a 25 percent dip in Taliban attacks from 24,000 to 18,000 over the same period.
Anderson, speaking to Pentagon reporters via video-conference, said the casualty figure was lower than expected given Afghan forces had taken over responsibility for leading the fight against the Taliban and engaged in a high level of activity. But he acknowledged the death toll was "not sustainable."
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