NATO Allies Leaving Afghanistan End Rebuilding in South

NATO allies yesterday marked the end of an almost decade-long involvement in building schools, hospitals, roads and government institutions in a swath of southern Afghanistan.

Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott stood facing a wall memorializing fallen allied soldiers that read “only the dead see the end of war.” His visit to Camp Holland, on the outskirts of the town of Tarin Kot, reflected Australian leadership since last year of the effort in Uruzgan province, which previously had been supervised by the Dutch after being started by the U.S. in 2004.