NATO to deploy AWACS in Afghanistan

The US-led military alliance says it will deploy the Airborne Warning and Control System planes (AWACS) to war-ravaged Afghanistan, officials say.

A NATO spokesperson said in Brussels on Friday that the planes would monitor the growing traffic of aerial missions against Taliban militants.

"AWACS [planes are] to begin their operations in Afghanistan in mid-January," AFP quoted NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu as saying.

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