United States Continues Role in Afghanistan as Troop Numbers Increase

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - SEPTEMBER 7: Members of Afghanistan's Crisis Response Unit 222, an Afghan Special Police Unit, participate in a training slowed down for the media on September 7, 2017 at Camp Lion in Kabul, Afghanistan. Currently the United States has about 11,000 troops in the deployed in Afghanistan, with a reported 4,000 more expected to arrive in the coming weeks. With the arrival of more troops, Resolute Support, the coalition train, advise, and assist mission, hopes to train almost double the amount of Afghan Special Forces and Special Police Units. (Photo by Andrew Renneisen/Getty Images)