Afghanistan War News Updates -- July 11, 2012

U.S. Army Sgt. Eric Rothenberger checks his sights while pulling security in an alleyway in the village of Kunday, Khost province, Afghanistan, July 7, 2012. Rothenberger is a team leader assigned to 2nd Battalion (Airborne), 377th Parachute Field Artillery Regiment. His unit's mission was to facilitate members of the female engagement team as they conducted key leader engagements to promote a female health education program. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Jason Epperson

Afghan Exit Will Cost US Billions, Pentagon's No. 2 Says -- Stars and Stripes/USA Today

WASHINGTON - Moving the mountain of U.S. military gear out of Afghanistan after more than a decade of war will cost billions of dollars and prove far more difficult than last year's withdrawal from Iraq, the Pentagon's No. 2 official said Tuesday.

Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, the Pentagon's point man for overseeing the drawdown in Afghanistan, talked about the challenges in his first extensive interview on pulling out of Afghanistan.

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More News On Afghanistan

ISAF Joint Command morning operational update, July 11 -- ISAF
War in Afghanistan News - 11 July 2012 -- War On Terror News
NATO Soldier Killed In IED Attack In Afghanistan -- RTT
Taliban reject Karzai's plea for peace talks -- Sydney Morning Herald
Taliban vow to keep up violence -- Sydney Morning Herald
Haqqani network not on terror list? -- CNN
Afghans protest against Taliban public execution of woman -- The Telegraph
NATO Transit Through Ulyanovsk to Begin in August -- The Moscow Times

'Poetry of the Taliban' elicits anger, astonishment -- Stars and Stripes/LA Times
An Interview: The Taliban’s Long View -- Alissa J. Rubin, At War/New York Times
In Afghanistan, U.S. borrows strategy from Iraq -- Chris Sands, Salon
Is corruption the cost of saving Afghanistan? -- Roland Paris, Globe and Mail
Welcome to Afghanistan's Future -- Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic
After Troops Leave, What Happens To Afghanistan? -- NPR

US military deaths in Afghanistan at 1,900 -- AP