⁍ The United States will reduce its troops in Afghanistan to 2,500 early next year, national security adviser Robert O’Brien said.
⁍ A landmark deal between the United States and the Taliban in February said that foreign forces will leave Afghanistan by May 2021.
⁍ President Donald Trump and other officials have said that the United States will go down to between 4,000 and 5,000 troops in Afghanistan around November.
– The US will reduce its troops in Afghanistan to 2,500 early next year, national security adviser Robert O’Brien said Wednesday, offering greater detail about the pace and scope of the drawdown from America’s longest war. A landmark deal between the US and the Taliban in February said that foreign forces will leave Afghanistan by May 2021 in exchange for counter-terrorism guarantees from the Taliban, which agreed to negotiate a permanent ceasefire and a power-sharing formula with the Afghan government. President Trump and other officials have said that the United States will go down to between 4,000 and 5,000 troops in Afghanistan around November. “When President Trump took office, there were over 10,000 American troops in Afghanistan. As of today there are under 5,000 and that will go to 2,500 by early next year,” O’Brien said at an event at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, per Reuters.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-afghanistan-military/us-to-go-down-to-2500-troops-in-afghanistan-by-early-2021-trump-adviser-idUSKBN26S3EX