Trump to withdraw ‘significant’ troops from Afghanistan 2 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy Agence France-PresseUS President Donald Trump has decided to pull a significant number of troops from Afghanistan, a US official told AFP on Thursday, with the Afghan presidency brushing off concerns the drawdown would affect security. “Frankly speaking we weren’t expecting that immediate US response,” the official told AFP from an unknown location in northwest Pakistan. There will be a significant withdrawal,” the American official told AFP on condition of anonymity. The United States has about 14,000 troops in Afghanistan working either with a NATO mission to support Afghan forces or in separate counter-terrorism operations.

Source: Manila Bulletin December 21, 2018 08:48 UTC