President Trump has made a surprise Thanksgiving visit with US troops in Afghanistan.
Around 13,000 U.S. personnel are still stationed in Afghanistan to train, advise and assist local forces under a NATO mission, and to conduct counterterrorism operations.
Trump said this summer that he aimed to reduce that figure, and last month the top U.S. general in Afghanistan said the total number of troops in the countryThe war in Afghanistan is the longest in U.S. history, claiming some 147,000 lives since the conflict started in 2001, including about 40,000 civilians, 60,000 Afghan security forces and 3,500 coalition troops — about 2,400 of them Americans,The U.S.
Department of Defense spending in Afghanistan has so far cost the U.S. taxpayer $765 billion, and the Afghan government still only controls some 53 percent of the country's territory amid the ongoing conflict, according toThe visit comes at a tumultuous time in the Trump presidency, following public testimony from senior diplomats in the House impeachment inquiry.
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