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Sen. Graham Says Trump May Announce Drawdown of Troops in Afghanistan

HeadlineDec 17, 2019

Republican South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham says President Trump may announce a drawdown of U.S. troops in Afghanistan before the year’s end. Graham was speaking from the Afghan capital Kabul Monday. He said Trump may reduce the number of troops from 12,000 down to 8,600. Graham’s visit to Afghanistan and his announcement come a week after The Washington Post published an extraordinary trove of secret U.S. documents, known as the Afghanistan Papers, revealing how U.S. officials repeatedly lied about the U.S. war in Afghanistan and hid evidence the war had become unwinnable.

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