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U.S. Expected To Spend $45 Billion In Afghanistan This Year

Thursday February 8, 2018

Kabul (BNA) The U.S. will spend 45 billion dollars on military operations in Afghanistan in 2018, local media reported, citing a senior Pentagon official.
The sum includes some 13 billion dollars for U.S. forces deployed in the country, five billion dollars for the Afghan troops and 780 million dollars for economic and logistic support, Randall Schriver, the assistant secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific security affairs, told the Senate, as quoted by The Hill media outlet. Senators criticized the planned costs of the operations in Afghanistan, asking whether the administration of President Donald Trump was going to launch negotiations with the Taliban radical movement.
In August, U.S. President Trump announced a new Afghanistan strategy, in which he pledged to continue support for the Afghan government and military in their fight against the ongoing militant insurgency aggravated by an unstable political, social and security situation.
Trump also stated that the authority of U.S. troops to target terrorists in Afghanistan would be expanded and approved sending an additional 4,000 troops to the country. In November, the Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs at Brown University said in a study that the U.S. had spent 5.6 trillion dollars on military conflicts in the Middle Eastern region since the 9/11 terror attacks with 877.4 billion dollars of them spent on the operations in Afghanistan, including the Coalition Support Funds for Pakistan.
 

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