New Delhi: Taliban welcome US troop withdrawal in Afghanistan. The terror group see the US troop drawdown in Afghanistan as a "good advancement" in implementing the February deal, 

The spokesman for the movement's political office in Doha said on Saturday its good advancement.  On Friday, US Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller said that the Pentagon had drawn down troops in Afghanistan and Iraq to just 2,500 soldiers in each country, in line with  US President Donald Trump's order. 

The US troops  were reduced come despite the fact that Congress earlier this month passed legislation to prevent the planned withdrawal of soldiers from Afghanistan until it receives a report assessing the effect of such a pullout.Mohammad Naeem took to Twitter and wrote, "The withdrawal of other US forces from Afghanistan, which was announced by the US yesterday, is a good advancement and practical measure. Undoubtedly, the practice of the agreement signed between the IEA [Taliban] and the US is in the benefit of both countries and nations."

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