Thu Nov 12, 10:00 AM ET

An exhausted US soldier rests after a patrol of Afghanistan's Kunar province in April 2009. The US envoy to Afghanistan has warned against sending thousands more troops to the country as President Barack Obama weighs strategy options in the eight-year conflict, reports said Thursday. (AFP/File/Liu Jin)

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