The tentative plan would involve initially pulling out nearly half of the current 14,000-strong force if the Taliban make good on key commitments, 2 U.S. defense officials and a Western official said.
The Trump administration is weighing a phased
When asked about Afghanistan on Friday, Trump suggested he was scaling back the U.S. footprint."With respect to Afghanistan, we've made a lot of progress. We're talking, but we've also made a lot of progress. We're reducing it."The Department of Defense"has not been ordered to draw down" in Afghanistan, said Pentagon spokesperson Navy CDR. Rebecca Rebarich.
After 10 days of talks in Kabul, the U.S. diplomat said he just had"my most productive visit to #Afghanistan since I took this job." While in Kabul over the past week, Khalilzad pressed Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to form a negotiating team that would be ready to enter into talks with the Taliban. Ghani has come around to the idea that the team must be inclusive of a broad political spectrum and include figures outside the government and from civil society, Western officials said.The Afghan government said Wednesday it had appointed a 15-member delegation to hold direct talks with the Taliban. If the U.S.
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