FACTBOX: Foreign troops obligations Afghanistan - Reuters

n">(Reuters) - British troops start could withdraw from Afghanistan as early as 2011, Prime Minister David Cameron to unannounced visit in the said country.

NATO leaders agreed to start at a Summit in Lisbon last month, transfer security responsibility in some areas to Afghans by mid-2011 and hand over control of the whole country by end of 2014, so that foreign troops withdraw.

Here are some facts about troop commitments from the main contributors Nations in Afghanistan:

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* THE UNITED STATES

-The USA has by far the most troops in Afghanistan, his power of 95,000 three times as large as it was as President Barack Obama in January 2009 took office.

Some of these additional troops have been sent by the former President George W. Bush; Obama sent 22,000 in the first months in Office. In December 2009, Democratic President ordered additional 30,000 soldiers, the last of which arrived in over the summer.

While Washington hopes it said has drawing down his power starting from July 2011, have details, that drawdown still not announced. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has proposed the pace of reduction may be decided incomplete until just before it starts.

Opponents of the 2011 date mainly under the rival Republican who say it has encouraged militant.

While public support for the war of the United States has steadily declined, a Reuters/Ipsos survey found that Americans Afghanistan rated bottom of a list of seven topics Congress should treat in 2011 in October.

The war that had tortured mid-2010 to at least $345 billion cost of U.S. taxpayer is another variety as the Obama administration struggles, to making a faltering economy.

Killed at least 1,417 troops since the war began in the year 2001 the United States has suffered most victims among NATO members in Afghanistan.

* BRITAIN

-Großbritannien has the second largest foreign forces contingent in Afghanistan with approximately 9,500 troops, most of which parts of the country and a stronghold of the Taliban based in southern Helmand province, one of the most violent.

Cameron said that British troops could start as early as 2011 withdrawing and he wants British combat troops from Afghanistan over five years. Cameron has proposed could however, 1,000 2015 remain British coach after.

The war will increase the victims of this summer especially after increasingly unpopular in the United Kingdom, always. Since 2001, more than 345 British troops were killed.

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