US Starts Troop Withdrawal From Afghanistan With ‘Local Actions’ Already Taken: Gen. Miller

U.S. Black Hawk military helicopters fly over the city of Kabul, Afghanistan, on April 19, 2021. Rahmat Gul/AP Photo

The United States’ top general in Afghanistan says the U.S. military has already begun closing down operations in the country in preparation for a full withdrawal.

“All of our forces are now preparing to retrograde,” Army Gen. Austin Miller told Afghan journalists at an April 25 press conference in the capital, Kabul.