Afghanistan's election commission said Thursday that the country's presidential election will be held Aug. 20, when voters around the country will decide whether to keep President Hamid Karzai on the job.
The election falls due this year in the spring, according to the Afghan constitution, but Azizullah Loden, the head of the country's Independent Election Commission, said the security situation is not strong enough to hold elections then.
Loden said that additional international forces would arrive in the coming months, and that their presence would improve security and allow the vote to be held. U.S. military leaders have said that up to 30,000 new American …
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