Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Makes Unannounced Visit to Afghanistan
Protection Secretary Lloyd Austin was in New Delhi, India, on Saturday prior to touring to Afghanistan.
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WASHINGTON—Defense Secretary
Lloyd Austin
made an unannounced stop by to Afghanistan Sunday ahead of a coming deadline for President Biden to attract down U.S. troops in America’s longest war.
The Pentagon claimed Mr. Austin achieved with Afghan President
Ashraf Ghani
alongside with U.S. army and diplomatic leaders in the country as component of his stop by, the initial by a major Biden administration formal.
The trip arrived ahead of a Could one deadline negotiated by the outgoing Trump administration to withdraw the remaining 2,five hundred troops in Afghanistan. Mr. Biden claimed in an job interview previous week that even if the Could deadline is complicated to meet up with, it wouldn’t be extended considerably more time.
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