Pentagon arch calls Afghan assent talks ‘encouraging’

Acting US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan pronounced on Monday he was speedy by US assent talks with Afghan Taliban insurgents though combined he had not nonetheless been tasked with formulation a full withdrawal of infantry from a some-more than 17-year-old war.

“Really a takeaway right now (is): it’s encouraging,” Shanahan told reporters outward a Pentagon, forward of talks with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. Shanahan pronounced he had been briefed on a talks.Taliban officials pronounced US negotiators on Saturday concluded on a breeze assent agreement environment out a withdrawal of unfamiliar infantry from Afghanistan within 18 months. A US official, however, pronounced a timeline had not been discussed.

Asked either he had been tasked with formulation a finish withdrawal from Afghanistan, Shanahan said: “I have not.”

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