Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Makes Unannounced Visit to Afghanistan
Protection Secretary Lloyd Austin was in New Delhi, India, on Saturday just before touring to Afghanistan.
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WASHINGTON—Defense Secretary
Lloyd Austin
created an unannounced take a look at to Afghanistan Sunday in advance of a coming deadline for President Biden to draw down U.S. troops in America’s longest war.
The Pentagon mentioned Mr. Austin met with Afghan President
Ashraf Ghani
together with U.S. navy and diplomatic leaders in the state as section of his take a look at, the to start with by a leading Biden administration formal.
The trip arrived in advance of a Could 1 deadline negotiated by the outgoing Trump administration to withdraw the remaining 2,five hundred troops in Afghanistan. Mr. Biden mentioned in an interview very last 7 days that even if the Could deadline is tough to meet up with, it wouldn’t be prolonged significantly lengthier.
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