US troop pullout from Afghanistan

The World

The Trump administration is reported to be planning to withdraw thousands of US troops from Afghanistan. The reports come a day after the president announced the country’s military withdrawal from Syria. Host Marco Werman asks BBC bureau chief in Kabul, Shoaib Sharifi, what the reaction has been to the news there.

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