Doha accord: US reduces troops to 8,600 in Afghanistan

KABUL.

This marked fulfillment of the first phase pullout obligation under the US, Taliban agreement, Gen. Mckenzi said. 
"What I would tell you now is we have met our part of the agreement," he told a panel discussion hosted by the Aspen Institute think tank. 
"We agreed to go to the mid-8,000 range within 135 days," McKenzie said. "We're at that number now." 
According to the agreement signed late February between the US and the Taliban, the . . .