President Donald Trump has decided to pull a significant number of troops from Afghanistan, a US official told AFP on Thursday, with some reports suggesting as many as 50 percent could leave the war-torn country. “If you’re the Taliban, Christmas has come early,” a senior foreign official in the Afghan ...
US Defense Secretary James Mattis disagrees with President Donald Trump’s decision to immediately withdraw all US military forces from Syria, Senator Lindsey Graham said during a press conference on Capitol Hill on Thursday. “He [Mattis] thought that the time was not right to leave,” Graham said. “He told me without ...