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A few years back if there were one hundred fifty thousand to international troops in afghanistan. doing their job and they have become battle another fifteenth there are fifteen thousand in they don't have the combat role their mission is to train support assist. was always their mission you know there was a good incompetently of the combat old came to an end there before two thousand and forty but they were in full combat role they were doing the fighting and our army national army in our police a stick and responsibility we have a number of casualties as it was until this and the conditions ...

Russia is there, the regime is much more ensconced and strengthened now than it had been a few years ago. so we're not bargaining from a great position here. >> but do you think the u.s., then, will be in syria for the long-term as well? >> well, i think we're going to be there for the foreseeable future. i don't think we'll ever be there in big numbers, and certainly not in a direct combat role, but we're certainly supporting our friends and allies protecting them from these hostile regime elements who are quite vicious. >> on the same day a president decided to launch those missiles in syria...

>> no group has taken responsibility for the attacks on u.s. troops in the african country of nigiers. a fourth soldier that is been killed, who has not been identified, was originally thought to have been kidnapped. the death of these soldiers shine the lights on operations in africa. and to explain it all is general jack keane. i'm curious that the perception understands that we may have a presence in the african contine continent, but it could quickly be turned into a combat role. >> the role we have in africa, it was started under the obama administration and expanded and now about 6,000 m...

Is not going to be a combat role. you have made that crystal clear and we are committed to make sure that the afghan people and the afghan soldiers and afghan officers will take the burden of responsibility. the modest additional troops that have been sent have enhanced the mission and that is playing a very crucial role. victory, political and military-wise is within our sight and i would like to thank you for the thoroughness of the review and especially for ordering that all instrument of american power, military, diplomatic and economic are brought together in a coherent plan of action to ...

In afghanistan than we were in the early obama years. so we're down to about 8,500 troops. 11 have been killed this year. an unusually sad year given we're smaller and not playing a combat role in general. but anyway, the increase would probably sounds like get us back into the range of 12,000, 13,000 u.s. troops. far less than the 100,000 number that we were at a half decade ago. and with some of the units in the field, advising the afghanis as they conduct operations. that was the part of the mission that we were supposed to do the last three years under president obama who was becoming frus...