A senior NATO official warns the US-led forces of further casualties in Afghanistan, where the alliance has already lost 172 soldiers so far this year.

From Military World

A senior NATO official warns the US-led forces of further casualties in Afghanistan, where the alliance has already lost 172 soldiers so far this year.

Speaking on the sidelines of a Royal United Services Institute conference in London, NATO’s Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan Mark Sedwill said on Thursday that the foreign forces in Afghanistan could face another four years of hard combat.

Sedwill, a former UK ambassador to Afghanistan, also said that NATO and British soldiers could be expected to stay in Afghanistan for at least another decade.

The official said a planned NATO-led military offensive in Kandahar Province — expected in early summer — is likely to cause a large number of fatalities.

Casualties among British and other US-led troops have increased significantly over recent years. More than 100 UK troops were killed and hundreds more seriously wounded in the war-weary country last year. Thirty-three Britons have been killed so far this year.

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