Mass pullout: British soldiers from B Company, 2 Mercian, board a Chinook helicopter on an operation in Malgir, Helmand province
Britain's Withdrawl From Afghanistan Will Speed Up With Plans To Bring 4,000 Troops Home In Mass Pullout Next Year -- Daily Mail
* David Cameron previously said operations will be over by the end of 2014
* Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has now put a concrete number on the scale of the drawdown
Britain will bring home 4,000 troops from Afghanistan next year under plans to speed up the pace of British withdrawal.
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond revealed the mass pullout, the first senior minister to put a concrete number on the scale of the drawdown.
David Cameron has previously announced that British combat operations in Afghanistan will be over by the end of 2014.
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