ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE - US President Donald Trump will announce a further drawdown of US troops from Iraq on Wednesday, a senior administration official told reporters on Tuesday .
That announcement will be followed by another one in the coming days on a further reduction in US forces in Afghanistan, the official said. The decision comes as Trump, a Republican, faces blowback from a report that he allegedly made disparaging remarks about US war dead.His announcement, and the timing of it, may be aimed at convincing voters that he is following through on promises to end what he has described as America's endless wars.
The United States has around 5,200 troops that were deployed in Iraq to fight the Islamic State militant group. A US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said last month that the United States was expected to reduce the number of its troops in Iraq by about a third in the coming months.Trump said in an interview with Axios released last month that the United States planned to lower that number to about 4,000.
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