An air force airman looks through a window of a C-130 transport aircraft on the way to Kabul, Afghanistan on Jan. 23, 2018. US …
An air force airman looks through a window of a C-130 transport aircraft on the way to Kabul, Afghanistan on Jan.23,2018. US soldiers look out over hillsides during a visit of the commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan General Scott Miller at the Afghan National Army (ANA) checkpoint in Nerkh district of Wardak province on June 6,2019. U. S forces arrive to the Intercontinental Hotel after an attack in Kabul, Afghanistan on Jan.21,2018. Gunmen stormed the hotel in the Afghan capital, triggering a shootout with security forces, officials said. A U.S. Army carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of Capt. Andrew P. Ross on Nov.30,2018, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. According to the Department of Defense, Ross,29, of Lexington, Va., was killed Nov.27,2018, by a roadside bomb in Andar, Ghazni Province, Afghanistan. U.S. soldiers patrol at the site of a Taliban suicide attack in Kandahar on Aug.2,2017. A Taliban suicide bomber rammed a vehicle filled with explosives into a convoy of foreign forces in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province. U.S. soldiers and Afghan security personnel investigate the site of a car bomb attack that targeted a NATO coalition convoy in Kabul on Sept.24,2017. Afghan commando forces patrol on Jan.3,2018, during an ongoing U.S.-Afghan military operation against Islamic State militants in Achin district of Nangarhar province in Afghanistan. Afghan commando forces patrol on Jan.3,2018, during an ongoing U.S.-Afghan military operation against Islamic State militants in Achin district of Nangarhar province in Afghanistan. A U.S. soldier stands guard at Kandahar Air base in Afghanistan on Jan.23,2018. U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis walks with General John Nicholson at the Resolute Support Mission headquarters on an unannounced visit to Kabul, Afghanistan on March 13,2018. U.S. soldiers from NATO look on as U.S. flag flies in a checkpoint during a patrol against Islamic State militants at the Deh Bala district in the eastern province of Nangarhar Province in Afghanistan on July 7,2018. Tucker Magnuson,2, of Lacon, says goodbye to his uncle, Sgt. Kenny Steele, right, who is headed out on his fourth tour to Afghanistan, as family and loved ones gather with members of Bravo Company,2nd Battalion,238th Aviation Regiment during a deployment ceremony at the guard’s aviation facility near the Gen. Wayne A. Downing Peoria International Airport on Aug.24,2017, in Ill. The unit will fly out for training on their way to deployment in support of Operation Freedom’s Sentinel. An Army carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of Staff Sgt. Aaron R. Butler at Dover Air Force Base, Del. on Aug.18,2017. According to the Department of Defense, Butler, of Monticello, Utah, died Aug.16, in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, of injuries sustained from an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations. In this July 31,2017 photo, U.S. forces leave after a suicide attack followed by a clash between Afghan forces and Islamic State fighters during an attack on the Iraqi embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan on Aug.22,2017. Reversing his past calls for a speedy exit, Trump recommitted the United States to the 16-year-old war in Afghanistan Monday night, declaring U.S. troops must “fight to win.” In this Aug.5,2015 file photo, an Afghan National Army soldier, left, smokes as a U.S. Army soldier from Charlie Company,2-14 Infantry Regiment,2nd Brigade,10th Mountain Division sits next to him in Camp Khogyani in Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan. An uptick in attacks by Afghan National army soldiers against foreign troops would seem a worrisome trend ahead of the deployment of another 4,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan in the latest attempt by Washington to turn around the protracted war against insurgents. In this May 3,2017 file photo, A damaged U.S. military vehicle is pictured at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan. In an “open letter” to U.S. President Donald Trump, Afghanistan’s Taliban on Tuesday reiterated their call for a withdrawal of troops to end the protracted war. A handout photo made available on May 2,2017 by the US Army and taken by US Army combat photographer Spc. Hilda I. Clayton showing an Afghan soldier as a mortar tube accidentally explodes during an Afghan National Army live-fire training exercise in Laghman province, Afghanistan on July 2,2013. The US Army report on May 2,2017 that Spc. Hilda I. Clayton, who was assigned to the 55th Signal Company (Combat Camera),21st Signal Brigade, took the image a moment before she died as the mortar tube accidentally exploded during an Afghan National Army live-fire training exercise in Laghman province. Hilda Clayton, and an Afgahn Army photojournalist died in the blast along with three Afghan soldiers taking part in the mortar training. Clayton’s family approved the release of the photographs. In this photograph taken on Aug.30,2015, US soldiers part of NATO patrol during the final day of a month long anti-Taliban operation by the Afghan National Army (ANA) in various parts of eastern Nangarhar province, at an Afghan National Army base in Khogyani district.
