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Captain Stephen James Healey is the 415th British serviceperson to die during Afghan mission. A British soldier was killed by an improvised explosive device while on patrol in Afghanistan, the defence ministry said on Sunday. Captain Stephen James Healey of the 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh regiment, was conducting a vehicle patrol in the north of the Nahr-e Saraj District in Helmand Province on Saturday when his vehicle struck the device. Healey is the 415th British serviceperson to die since the military mission in Afghanistan started in 2001. Britain has some 9,500 troops in Afghanistan, mainly based in Helmand where they are battling a Taliban insurgency. Britain intends to pull out all its combat troops by 2015. View the original article here

British PM said that 50% attacks of likely terrorism are planned in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Addressing Lower House, David Cameron said that about 75% planning of terror attacks used to be made in Afghanistan and Pakistan three years back; however it has been decreased to some extent and now, 50% attacks are planned in these countries. He said that the UK would like to make Afghanistan able to shoulder responsibility of the defence, adding that the UK forces would be taken back from Afghanistan in 2014.