KABUL: The United States will have about 20,000 troops in Afghanistan after handing control of the southern quarter of the country to a Nato-led force, the US ambassador to Kabul said on Monday.

There are roughly 23,000 US troops in Afghanistan, most of them serving with a US-led coalition that has been here since helping to topple the Taliban government weeks after the September 11, 2001 attacks by al-Qaeda.

Ambassador Ronald Neumann told reporters it was difficult to be precise because the number of US troops would fluctuate. However, ‘right now I would estimate that US forces will remain in around the 20,000 level’.
thenews.com.pk

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