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China Daily | Updated: 2017-06-17 07:18
Afghanistan
US military presence boosted
The Pentagon will send almost 4,000 additional US forces to Afghanistan, a Trump administration official said on Thursday, hoping to break a stalemate in a war that has now passed to a third US commander in chief. The deployment will be the largest of US manpower under Donald Trump's young presidency. The decision by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis could be announced as early as next week, the official said.
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