General Joseph Dunford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said that the presence of American forces in Afghanistan has disrupted the “enemy’s ability to reconstitute and pose threat to the United States.

President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani met with a delegation of the U.S. Department of Defense led by the Defense Secretary James Mattis and the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford departed the U.S. on Sunday for a week-long trip focused on shoring up Afghanistan’s new strategy by pressing key neighbors Pakistan and India to do more to help stabilize the country.