U.S. would cut troops in Afghanistan to 8,600 under peace deal, Trump says

Trump confirms the U.S. plans to cut its military forces in Afghanistan to 8,600 troops

“We’re going to keep a presence there,” he said in the radio interview. “We’re reducing that presence very substantially, and we’re going to always have a presence. We’re going to have high intelligence.”

The Taliban’s main demand in the negotiations is that all U.S. forces leave Afghanistan. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Joseph Dunford said yesterday that it’s “premature” to discuss whether the U.S. would eventually meet that demand or would insist on a stay-behind counterterrorism force aimed at Islamic State and al-Qaida militants.

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