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Mark Simmonds, Foreign Office Minister with responsibility for Africa, spoke to the BBC to explain more about the "very limited" role the UK would play in supporting operations in Mali.

The US said it launched four air strikes in the Amerli area, in effect supporting operations involving militias that previously fought against US troops in Iraq.

In recent times, the number of contractors supporting operations in Iraq and Afghanistan has reached historic proportions.

Scores of planes took off daily, mostly supporting operations in Afghanistan.

DOD estimated that about 104,000 contractor personnel were supporting operations in Afghanistan as of September 2009.

But in 2014, the US closed its air base - established in 2001 to support operations in Afghanistan.

Kyrgyzstan has threatened to review its agreement with the United States on the use of the Manas air base, set up in 2001 to support operations in nearby Afghanistan.

America needs its leased airbase to support operations in Afghanistan.

While more than 5,000 American troops are in Afghanistan, many thousands more are involved in support operations.

We then spent a day and a half travelling by road and helicopter around Oman and visiting troops in support operations, on board the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious and commandos holed up in the middle of the desert.

I initially served in London and Somerset as a communicator, before I was assigned to work with NATO in Italy, and supported operations in the Former Yugoslavia.