McMaster: No Decision Yet on Sending More Troops to Afghanistan

US President Donald Trump has not made a decision yet on sending more American troops to support forces in Afghanistan and he is consulting the US allies on the issue, the White House said yesterday. American media reported that US National Security Advisor McMaster told reporters at a White House news conference that we will have an opportunity to do so at the NATO summit in Brussels. Trump is scheduled to travel to Brussels for NATO summit and then to Italy to attend the G-7 summit. “So, what we we’ll have at the end this next few weeks here, is an opportunity for a much more effective strategy for the problem set in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the region broadly, McMaster told reporters, indicating that the Af-Pak policy of the Trump administration would take some time before it is announced. He further stated that recently we have been engaged against ISIS Khorasan in Afghanistan with highly successful operations there, he said adding that details of which would be announced by the Department of Defence in the near future.