VP Pence pays surprise visit to US troops in Afghanistan
 

KABUL: Vice President Mike Pence told US troops in Afghanistan Thursday that they have put the Taliban on the run, as he became the most senior Trump administration official to visit the men and women fighting America´s longest-ever war.Flying secretly through the day and night on a standard unmarked US Air Force C-17 transport plane, Pence corkscrewed into Bagram Airfield on the unannounced visit to thank some of the roughly 15,000 US personnel still hoping to turn the tide in the conflict, now in its 17th year. ?We´ve dramatically increased American air strikes. And together with our Afghan partners, we´ve put the Taliban on the defensive,? he said, also pointing at efforts to target the drug trafficking networks that help fund the Taliban. ?All across this country we´ve won new victories against the terrorists, no matter what they call themselves or where they try to hide.?

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