The US President said that US troops in Afghanistan should be “home by Christmas,”. He said this just hours after his national security adviser said Washington would reduce its forces in Afghanistan to 2,500 by early next year.
A landmark deal between the United States and the Taliban in February said foreign forces would leave Afghanistan by May 2021 in exchange for counter terrorism guarantees from the Taliban, who agreed to negotiate a permanent ceasefire and a power-sharing formula with the Afghan government.
The US President and other officials said that the United States will go down to between 4,000 and 5,000 troops in Afghanistan around November.
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