About 4,000 more U.S. troops to go to Afghanistan

Friday, June 16, 2017

WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon will send almost 4,000 additional American forces to Afghanistan, a Trump administration official said Thursday, hoping to break a stalemate in a war that has passed to a third U.S. commander in chief.

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