The two leaders left unresolved another contentious issue: U.S. troop levels after 2014, when the current NATO combat mission ends.
White House officials have previously suggested they favour keeping between 3, 000 and 9, 000 troops in Afghanistan after the combat mission ends.
White House officials had previously suggested they favoured keeping between 3, 000 and 9, 000 US soldiers in Afghanistan after the combat mission ends.
David Cameron has said the UK's combat mission will end in 2014.
Next week, as you know, the U.S. military will end its combat mission in Iraq, with the remaining troops advising and assisting Iraqi forces.
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Obama wanted NATO to commit to long-range support for Afghanistan, and Rasmussen said the alliance would support Afghan forces after the combat mission ends.
This will be another step toward Afghans taking full lead for their security as agreed to by 2014 when the ISAF combat mission will end.
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Army Chief Warrant Officer 3 Michael Durant, a Black Hawk helicopter pilot, was shot down in 1993 during a combat mission in Mogadishu, Somalia.
Over the past two and a half years, we've removed more than 100, 000 troops from Iraq, ended our combat mission and are responsibly ending that war.
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After years of conflict, the United States has removed 100, 000 troops from Iraq, the United Kingdom has removed its forces, and our combat mission there has ended.
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Less than an hour after targeting he'll be back in suburban Las Vegas, his drive home more physically dangerous than the combat mission he has just undertaken.
The soldier also mentioned his shock at discovering a video of an aerial combat mission in Iraq in which two employees from the Reuters news agency were killed.
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That is why we continue to fight in Afghanistan, even as we have ended our combat mission in Iraq and removed more than 100, 000 troops from that country.
It also throws a pall over ongoing negotiations for a bilateral security agreement that would govern the presence of U.S. forces in Afghanistan after the current combat mission ends in 2014.
"Afghanistan will continue to face challenges in the years ahead and we are committed to supporting the Afghan government, through funding to the national security forces and through development assistance, after the combat mission ends, " he said.
Just prior to the war in Iraq, Phillips became the first female journalist to fly in an F-14 air-to-air combat training mission over the Persian Gulf.
None of us had combat experience and knew this mission would set the tone for the deployment.
At 25, on our first mission with no combat experience, I thought that was a pretty large amount of responsibility that I did not take lightly.
In October, the United States sent 100 combat-equipped troops on a mission to kill or capture Kony.
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