Brown IN Afghanistan

Afghanistan as he made an unannounced visit to troops in the field Sunday.

Brown made the visit two weeks after ordering the deployment of 500 extra British troops to Afghanistan alongside a surge of 30,000 US forces, part of a sweeping new strategy to turn around the eight-year war.

He held talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai at a military base in Kandahar, the southern province where the Taliban first emerged and one of the deadliest battlefields for Western troops since the 2001 US-led invasion.

Brown spent a foggy night on the sprawling base in a simple room with limited heating, sharing a shower bloc and latrine with soldiers, before heading into a breakfast meeting with British commanders.

Afghanistan as he made an unannounced visit to troops in the field Sunday.

Brown made the visit two weeks after ordering the deployment of 500 extra British troops to Afghanistan alongside a surge of 30,000 US forces, part of a sweeping new strategy to turn around the eight-year war.

He held talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai at a military base in Kandahar, the southern province where the Taliban first emerged and one of the deadliest battlefields for Western troops since the 2001 US-led invasion.

Brown spent a foggy night on the sprawling base in a simple room with limited heating, sharing a shower bloc and latrine with soldiers, before heading into a breakfast meeting with British commanders.

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