Donald Trump to declare new Afghan strategy: White House

Washington, Aug 21 US President Donald Trump will declare America's new strategy in Afghanistan today, almost 16 years after the war started in the nation, the White House stated, in the midst of reports that his organization investigated conceivable outcomes of a part for India amid its policy review.

Trump's address to US troops and the country at 9 pm local time (7:30 am IST, Tuesday) from the Fort Myer army base in Arlington, Virginia, will take after Defence Secretary Jim Mattis confirmation yesterday that the organization had decided on another Afghan technique after "rigorous" debate.

The much-anticipated policy declaration comes eight months after Trump turned into the US president and after feedback from some US administrators that he was attempting to settle on a choice.

Trump's antecedent, Barack Obama, reported his Afghan approach in the initial 100 days of his office.

Disappointed with Trump organization's delay, Senator John McCain on August 10 had revealed his own procedure for Afghanistan in which he had proposed to impose "graduated" expenses on Pakistan in the event that it keeps on supporting fear based oppressor gatherings.

Reporting his system, McCain had said that the US was "afloat" in Afghanistan. The executive of the effective Senate Armed Services Committee had required a "persevering nearness" of US troops in the war-torn nation.

The White House statement did not detail the diagram of the new procedure, with Press Secretary Sarah Sanders just saying that Trump will "give a report on the way ahead for America's engagement in Afghanistan and South Asia."

On Friday, Trump had a meeting with national security authorities at Camp David to talk about the Afghan strategy. On Saturday, he tweeted: "Vital day went through at Camp David with our exceptionally gifted Generals and military pioneers. Numerous choices made, including on Afghanistan."

Mattis yesterday said that the new system secured more than Afghanistan and was a full "South Asia technique."

While Obama's arrangement centered principally around Afghanistan and Pakistan, reports said the Trump organization investigated conceivable outcomes for a part for India amid its approach audit.

Months prior, the Pentagon had settled on an arrangement to send roughly 3,800 extra troops to help fortify the Afghan Army, which is stuck in what some call a falling apart stalemate with the Taliban uprising.

US military officers have regularly contended that extra troops would help the US to invert increases made by the Taliban and other activist gatherings.

Following the 2001 September 11 attacks, the US-drove an attack of Afghanistan to crush the Taliban and al Qaeda.

The war in the end turned into the US' longest ever.

This year, the Taliban hostile against the West-supported government in Kabul expanded this late spring.

Reports said the insurgent group in an "open letter" to Trump a week ago emphasized its requires the withdrawal of all residual US troops from Afghanistan.