International plans to withdraw foreign troops from Afghanistan by 2015 faced a major setback after a British House of Lords committee concluded that the European Union mission to train local police risked failure.
The damning report, from a committee of 12 peers, chaired by Lord Teverson and including former Chief of the Defence Staff, Field Marshall Lord Inge, said "there is a real risk that the EU will fail in an area in where it should show leadership".
