Afghanistan Withdrawal

It's going to be a bumpy ride.

By Jan.15, there should be roughly 2,500 U.S. troops still in Afghanistan.

“There were no specific threats that triggered the return of the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group"

The general doth protest too much

'With the blessings of Providence, in the coming year we will finish this generational war and bring our men and women home.'

This is the latest development in the long and torturous drawdown in Afghanistan.

(Arnold Schwarzenegger voice) It's not a coup!

'In this incident, 19 people were martyred and 22 others were injured.'

A U.S. airstrike launched to support Afghan security forces killed five Taliban fighters in central Afghanistan on Sunday evening, a spokesman for U.S. forces in Afghanistan said

We're back to a conditions-based withdrawal, maybe?

A day after President Donald Trump tweeted that all U.S. troops in Afghanistan should be home by the end of the year, the silence coming from top military leaders was so intense that one could practically hear a mouse fart.

'Embarrassing things tend to get classified in this town.'

Operation Resolute Support is currently assessing how many U.S. troops will have to stay in Afghanistan longer than expected.

There are currently 22 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Afghanistan.

The long goodbye begins.