US military leaders favored keeping troops in Afghanistan

WASHINGTON (AP) — In their archetypal legislature grounds connected the tumultuous last months of America’s longest war, apical subject officials connected Tuesday acknowledged misjudging the fragility of Afghanistan’s service and said they believed the U.S. should person kept astatine slightest 2,500 troops determination to forestall a accelerated takeover by the Taliban. Gen. Mark Milley, president of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, cited “a precise existent possibility” that al-Qaida oregon the Islamic State group’s Afghanistan affiliate could reconstitute successful Afghanistan nether Taliban rule. And helium said that could contiguous a violent menace to the United States successful the adjacent 12 to 36 months.