Pentagon Gives Go-Ahead For U.S. Troops To Withdraw From Afghanistan

Military.com: US Troops Will Begin Pulling Out of Afghanistan Despite Renewed Violence, SecDef Says

Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Monday that the U.S. plans to go ahead with troop withdrawals from Afghanistan, starting in just days, despite renewed violence and a spate of objections raised by the Kabul government to the U.S.-Taliban peace deal.

Esper said he had directed Army Gen. Austin Scott Miller, commander of U.S. and coalition troops in Afghanistan, "to get moving" on drawing down U.S. forces from about 12,000 to 8,600 under the U.S.-Taliban agreement signed Saturday in Doha, Qatar.

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