KABUL are largely exaggerated, says UK-based weekly magazine.
The Economist wrote the reports appeared plausible, in so far as Trump had just announced a withdrawal from Syria and had publicly wavered about keeping any troops in Afghanistan at all in 2017, before deciding to increase their number from 8,400 to 14,000.
“Yet the sudden reversal had come out of the blue. The Afghan government and startled allies with troops in Afghanistan, such as Britain, said they had not been consulted and were awaiting . . .
