KABUL: US troops will be 'well-positioned' to start a limited withdrawal from Afghanistan in July, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday during a press conference in Kabul.

Gates, currently on a two-day visit to Afghanistan, was speaking alongside President Hamid Karzai, whose country's forces are due to take control of security across Afghanistan in 2014, allowing foreign forces to leave.

Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2011

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