US President Barack Obama on Tuesday approved requests by the Afghan government to slow down the removal of US troops from Afghanisatan, reports Reuters.
Speaking at a joint news conference with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, Barack Obama said,
“It was my assessment as commander in chief that it made sense for us to provide a few extra months for us to be able to help on things like logistics.”
Ghani expressed gratitude to the US military that died fighting the Taliban, adding that they “must not die in vain” and “leave a behind a legacy of a stable Afghanistan.”
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