A senior Taliban official told reporters in Moscow on Wednesday that the US had vowed to withdraw half of its troops from Afghanistan by April. The US however has issued no details of a potential troop pull-out from the war-ravaged country
Speaking to reporters in the Russian capital a week after the Taliban held separate talks with US officials in Qatar, the Taliban’s deputy chief negotiator Abdul Salam Hanafi said the US had agreed to withdraw half their troops from Afghanistan by the end of April.
“The Americans agreed to withdraw half of their troops immediately. The withdrawal will start from February 1 and continue until end of April,” Hanafi told reporters in Moscow.