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The United States government plans to gradually reduce the number of soldiers deployed in Afghanistan to 8,600, which would mean a significant decrease from the 12,000 to 13,000 currently stationed in the Central Asian country, according to The New York Times.

The newspaper, which quotes US and Afghan officials, says that in the long term the plan is to reduce the number of troops to 8,600, which would mean a decrease close to that agreed between the US and the Taliban during their negotiations, which lasted more than a year and that They were abruptly interrupted just over a month ago.

In the final phase of that dialogue, a draft agreement was released that provided for the withdrawal of 5,000 US troops in 135 days.

According to the New York newspaper, Lt. Gen. Austin Scott Miller, the highest-ranking American in Afghanistan, announced Monday at a press conference in Kabul that 2,000 US soldiers have left the country over the past year, so that there are currently between 12,000 and 13,000 troops.

According to The New York Times, that decline is part of a plan to reduce the number of troops and leave it in the long term at 8,600.

This partial withdrawal would leave the US contingent in Afghanistan at a level very similar to the one it had when US President Donald Trump came to power in 2017, when there were about 8,400 soldiers in the country.

Trump has repeatedly said he wants to end the "infinite wars" of the United States in the world and, just over two weeks ago, announced the withdrawal of US troops in Syria.

Only a few days after the announcement of the US president, on October 9, Turkey initiated an offensive against Kurdish militias, which they consider terrorists and who were allies of Washington in the fight against jihadist group Islamic State (IS).

In Afghanistan, since the end of the NATO combat mission in January 2015, the US maintains a contingent under the new allied mission of advising Afghan troops and another in "anti-terrorist" tasks.

The war in Afghanistan is the longest conflict in which the US has been immersed, where it has been present for over 18 years and more than 2,300 Americans have lost their lives.

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