Poppy farmers are giving up drugs for planting wheat, CNN's Atia Abawi speaks to Afghan farmers on this change.
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- UK medics giving frontline help - BBC
- Extra US troops to be deployed fast to Afghanistan...
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- 10,000 British troops to be fighting Taliban in Af...
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- 'Strategic stalemate' in Afghanistan?
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- Georgia to send 100 soldiers to Afghanistan
- Hutton backs US Nato troops call - BBC
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- Drive to eliminate poppy in Helmand begins - Front...
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- Afghanistan's Karzai hits out at U.S. critics - Re...
- Taliban in Swat valley call 10-day ceasefire - Tel...
- New sniper rifle boosts British Army operations ag...
- Marine Darren Smith of 45 Cdo Royal Marines killed...
- The Marine who saved the dogs of war - MailOnline
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- Growing stability and Helmand honey - The Times
- 'Bomb disposal is very like risk management'
- Soldiers' Snow Training - Sky News
- Gurkhas train Afghan Police - Video 2
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- RAF Unveils Its New Spy Planes - Sky
- Afghan media centre aims to win hearts and minds
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- The Eye in the Sky - BBC Video report
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