US President Donald Trump hints he might soon visit American troops in Afghanistan for the first time.
Addressing service members in a Thanksgiving telephone conference, the president tells one colonel deployed to the country: “I’ll see you back when you’re in the United States or maybe I’ll see you over there.”
Questioned later by journalists on whether he would make the trip, the president simply says: “At the appropriate time, we’ll be doing some very interesting thing.”
While 14,000 US military personnel remain deployed in Afghanistan 17 years after the war began in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks, the Republican president has yet to make a visit after nearly two years in office.
Presidential trips to conflict zones are usually kept secret until the last minute.
— AFP
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