{"id":8939,"date":"2019-09-03T12:59:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T07:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=8939"},"modified":"2019-09-03T12:59:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T07:59:26","slug":"u-s-would-pull-5400-troops-in-135-days-from-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/8939","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Would Pull 5,400 Troops in 135 Days from Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">The United States would withdraw 5,400 troops from Afghanistan within 20 weeks as part of a deal &#8220;in principle&#8221; with Taliban militants, Washington&#8217;s top negotiator has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">That pullout would be the start of what is expected to be the gradual withdrawal of all 14,000 United States troops that could end America\u2019s longest running war.<\/p>\n<p>The deal outlined by American envoy, Zalmay Khalilzad has led nearly a year of talks with the Taliban.\u00a0 He\u00a0 told an Afghan news channel that\u00a0 the deal is \u00a0the product of nine rounds of peace talks that have been held in the Gulf state of Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>In exchange for the US troop withdrawal, the Taliban would ensure that Afghanistan would never again be used as a base for militant groups seeking to attack the US and its allies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">\u00a0the United States had reached an agreement \u201cin principle\u201d with the Afghan insurgents, but he cautioned that final approval rested with President Trump.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-o6xoe7\">\n<div class=\"css-ke163a\" data-testid=\"article-companion-wrapper\">\n<div id=\"newsletter-module\" class=\"css-48vsi0\">\n<div class=\"css-1k9ek97\">\n<div class=\"css-1hdd06o\">\n<p class=\"css-utmy9y\">Mr. Khalilzad has not shared details, but Western officials have previously suggested the timeline for the full withdrawal of American troops would probably be 16 months, if the Taliban meet certain conditions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-tjpxhb\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States would withdraw 5,400 troops from Afghanistan within 20 weeks as part of a deal &#8220;in principle&#8221; with Taliban militants, Washington&#8217;s top negotiator has said. That pullout would be the start of what is expected to be the gradual withdrawal of all 14,000 United States troops that could end America\u2019s longest running war. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,31,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-news","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8939"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8952,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8939\/revisions\/8952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}