Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said today (August 31, 2017) that the Pentagon will send additional troops to Afghanistan, where U.S.-backed security forces are stalemated in a war against the Taliban and other insurgent groups, according to the USA Today website.
Mattis did not specify how many additional troops would be going there, but the top coalition commander in Afghanistan, Gen. John Nicholson, has said a few thousand more troops would be required to break the stalemate in America's longest war.
Currently, about 11,000 U.S. forces are in Afghanistan in addition to several thousand troops from coalition partner countries.
Mattis said he has begun signing deployment orders to dispatch the additional forces.
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