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Tashkent has given the US six months' notice to leave its Karshi- Khanabad (K2) air base in southeastern Uzbekistan, forcing the Pentagon to reassess its options for carrying out military and humanitarian operations in Afghanistan.
Uzbek President Islam Karimov had been threatening to evict the US for several weeks in response to US criticism of his brutal crackdown on protestors in Andijan, in...