US President Donald Trump’s administration is close to finalizing a decision to withdraw more than 4,000 troops from Afghanistan by the upcoming fall, CNN reported citing two of the administration officials.
Iran says the US has no legal standing to sign a peace agreement or determine the future of Afghanistan, describing the move as the US’ attempt to legitimize the presence of its troops in Afghanistan.
A truce between US troops and the Taliban in Afghanistan could result in American forces finally exiting the country, but there are powerful interests that want the war to continue, former Virginia senator Richard Black states.
Two decades after its invasion of Afghanistan, the United States has come to the inevitable conclusion that it must end its military intervention there.
After the letter of Gen. William H. Sili, commander of US military operations in Iraq, was leaked and then rapidly disseminated among Zionist most senior security figures Jan. 6, it turned on all the alarm systems throughout the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, according to Al-Monitor website.
US Senator Lindsey Graham said Monday that President Donald Trump will announce an American troop drawdown from Afghanistan this week, which will likely begin next year.
US President Trump on Thursday made an unannounced trip to Afghanistan where he celebrated the US holiday Thanksgiving with troops and met with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani.
President Donald Trump stated that the United States is “substantially” reducing its presence in Afghanistan, and claimed that a peace deal with the Taliban is close at hand.
US special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad says US pursuing a peace agreement that enables withdrawal from Afghanistan as the eighth round of U.S.-Taliban peace talks began in Qatar’s capital Doha on Saturday.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pushed back on what he called inaccurate news reports regarding U.S. plans to withdraw its military forces from Afghanistan by 2020.