Pentagon chief visits Afghanistan after deadly Taliban attack

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis arrived in Afghanistan on an unannounced visit Monday, hours after his Afghan counterpart resigned over a deadly Taliban attack that triggered anger and left embattled security forces facing disarray.


Mattis, making his first visit to Afghanistan as Pentagon chief, was due to meet top officials including President Ashraf Ghani less than two weeks after the US dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb on ISIS hideouts in the country's east.
  [dailystar.com.lb/AFP]
24/4/17
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