No timeline for possible U.S. troop drawdown in Afghanistan: State Department

U.S. troops wait at their base to fly to a training and advisory mission at an Afghan National Army (ANA) Base in Logar province, Afghanistan on August 7, 2018. (REUTERS File Photo)

WASHINGTON, February 6 (Reuters): The United States has not agreed on any timeline to pull U.S. troops from Afghanistan, a U.S. State Department spokesperson said on Wednesday, adding that it would look at potential changes to its military presence "as conditions allow."

"We have not agreed to any timeline for a possible drawdown of troops and are not going to get into any other specific details of diplomatic conversations," the spokesperson said in a statement.



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