Handover: General David Petraeus receives the Nato during a ceremony attended by several hundred Nato and Afghan officials in Kabul today
U.S. General David Petraeus today formally assumed command of the 130,000-strong international force in Afghanistan at a time of rising casualties and growing scepticism about the direction of the nearly nine-year-old war.
General Petraeus received two flags - one for the U.S. and the other for Nato - during a ceremony attended by several hundred Nato and Afghan officials on a grassy area just outside coalition headquarters in Kabul.
