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As violence continues in Afghanistan, there is a growing consensus that the Taliban cannot be defeated by military might alone, and that negotiations might offer a way towards some kind of political settlement.
The number of British soldiers killed in Afghanistan reached 100 last week when three soldiers died in a suicide attack in Helmand on 8 June. Four days later, two more members of the Parachute Regiment were killed in an ambush.
This grim landmark figure has prompted observers to …
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