The United States is on track to meet its commitment to the Taliban to withdraw several thousand troops from Afghanistan by mid-July, even as violence flares, the peace process is stalled, and Kabul struggles in political deadlock.
US officials say they will reduce to eight thousand six hundred troops by July fifteen and abandon five bases, saying that by the second quarter of 2021, all foreign forces are supposed to withdraw, ending the US’s longest war, yet the outlook for peace is cloudy at best.
According to the report, in the absence of Afghan peace talks, the administration of US President, Donald Trump may face the prospect of fully withdrawing even as the Taliban remains at war with the government, which has been a serious concerned to some lawmakers, including Representative Liz Cheney, a Republican and member of the House Armed Services Committee, who said that the US needs to keep a military and intelligence presence in Afghanistan to prevent groups like al-Qaeda and the ISIL’s Afghan affiliate from forming havens from which to attack the US.
She said that withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan would not end the war but it will let the terrorists win.
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