Monitoring Desk
WASHINGTON: The United States Defese Secretary, Jim Mattis has said US will send 3,000 more troops to Afghanistan with the aim to make sure to achieve the US targets regarding announcing the new policy for the region.
Mattis told this while talking to media persons that he is expecting to sign an order of sending the troops but he was not willing to share more details in this regard. Mattis added that about half of the new troops would be from the 82nd Airborne.
At the end of last month, Mattis told reporters the reinforcements would advise and “enable the Afghan forces to fight more effectively” against the Taliban and other terror groups in the country.
The additional 3,000 US troops would bring the total in country to about 14,000.
US troops in Afghanistan are on a two-fold mission – as part of a NATO-led operation to train and advise Afghan troops, and a counter-terrorism mission.
