The vote count begins after Afghans voted Saturday for its first-ever democratic elections. (Twitter/@UN)
Voters didn’t want to be identified in the country’s first democratic election because of fear of the Taliban.
Read more...Afghan President Hamid Karzai (background) and U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta photographed Jan. 10, 2013 (Creative Commons)
Afghan forces will be put into combat lead in the spring rather than summer.
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