
US says not withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
--White House spokesman rejects report claiming that President Trump has ordered military to pull out 7,000 troops from Afghanistan WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump hasn’t ordered th
“The president has not made a determination to drawdown US military presence in Afghanistan and he has not directed the Department of Defense to begin the process of withdrawing US personnel from Afghanistan,” Garrett Marquis, a spokesman for the National Security Council, said in an emailed statement on Friday.