Opinion

Do we still need Australian troops in Afghanistan?

By Clive Williams
January 29 2019 - 12:00am

There seem to be encouraging new prospects for a major downturn in the foreign military presence in Afghanistan. President Donald Trump has been pushing since last year for a quick US military withdrawal from Afghanistan, while the Taliban is now claiming to have reached a draft agreement with US negotiators on foreign troop withdrawal within 18 months of an agreement being signed.

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