The prime minister who sent UK troops into Afghanistan 20 years ago says Britain has a "moral obligation" to stay until "all those who need to be are evacuated".
When commanding officer Major Adam Jowett faced the battle of a lifetime against a deadly force of Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan in the summer of 2006, it was the culmination of an ambition that was born 24 years earlier.
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