WASHINGTON (Pajhwok): The United States is keeping a large force in Afghanistan to defeat ISIS, the US President Barack Obama said Thursday.
“In Afghanistan, one of the reasons that I decided to largely maintain our current force posture was so that we could keep eliminating ISIL's presence there,” Obama told reporters at a Pentagon news conference after a meeting with his national security team to review the progress made in the fight against ISIS.
“We delivered another blow last month when we took out a top ISIL leader in Afghanistan, Umar . . .
