{"id":3220,"date":"2013-12-18T08:34:23","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T08:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3220"},"modified":"2013-12-18T08:34:23","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T08:34:23","slug":"last-australian-combat-troops-leave-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2013\/12\/18\/3220\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Australian combat troops leave Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/last-australian-combat-troops.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>Australian combat troops have completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Monday marking the end of the nation\u2019s longest war, which has left 40 Australians dead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Abbott announced that more than 1,000 troops would be withdrawn from the restive southern province of Uruzgan before the end of the year during a surprise visit to their base at Tarin Kot in October. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The drawdown from Uruzgan was completed Sunday and most soldiers were expected to be home for Christmas.\u00a0 \u201cThis war is ending, not with victory, not with defeat, but with hope that Afghanistan is a better place and Uruzgan in particular is a better place for our presence,\u201d Abbott said. \u201cI firmly believe that to be the case.\u201d <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Canberra first committed troops to Afghanistan following the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, but they have been in Uruzgan since late 2005. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cWe know that they\u2019ve paid a high price &#8211; 40 dead and 261 seriously wounded &#8211; but that sacrifice has not been in vain,\u201d Abbott said, referring to the 12-year mission.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cUruzgan today is a very significantly different and better place than it was a decade ago.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Some 400 Australians will remain in Afghanistan in non-combat roles mostly in Kabul and Kandahar but the bulk of the 1,550 Australians who had been serving there were now out of the country.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThey are in the air and on their way home,\u201d Defence Minister David Johnston told reporters in Sydney.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">More than 25,000 Australians have served in Afghanistan since 2001 when Australia joined close ally the United States to fight the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<\/span> <em><strong>The Nation<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian combat troops have completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Monday marking the end of the nation\u2019s longest war, which has left 40 Australians dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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