Trump: US to keep 8,600 troops in Afghanistan after deal with Taliban

US troops were first sent to Afghanistan after the September 11, 2001 terrorist
attacks on US soil carried out by Al-Qaeda, which was sheltered by the former
Taliban regime.
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President Donald Trump on�August 29 said that US troop levels in Afghanistan will
drop to 8,600 if a deal is reached with the Taliban and that a permanent presence
will remain. "We're going down to 8,600 and then we make a determination from
there," Trump said in an interview with Fox News radio. "We're always going to have
a presence." Trump also said that if another attack on the United States originated
from Afghanistan "we would come back with a force like... never before."
US troops were first sent to Afghanistan after the September 11, 2001 terrorist
attacks on US soil carried out by Al-Qaeda, which was sheltered by the former
Taliban regime.
Washington now wants to end its military involvement and has been talking to the
Taliban since at least 2018. Trump says that troops will only be reduced when the
Taliban gives a guarantee that its territory will not be used by Al-Qaeda or other
international militant groups.
Trump underlined that there was to be no complete withdrawal, keeping a force that
would�