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May 20, 2021 9:38 AM EDT
The Senate Armed Services Committee will hold a hearing Thursday on the implications of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Brigadier General Matthew Trollinger, deputy director of Politico-Military Affairs in the Middle East, will testify, along with David Helvey, acting assistant secretary of defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs.
Watch the hearing live at 10 a.m. ET in the video player above.
The top U.S. commander for the Middle East said Wednesday he will make recommendations to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in early June on how to monitor and fight terrorist groups in Afghanistan from beyond its borders after all American forces withdraw.
American soldiers wait on the tarmac in Logar province, Afghanistan, in 2017. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)
WASHINGTON (CN) An acting assistant secretary for the Department of Defense who oversees Indo-Pacific security for the U.S. told a Senate committee Thursday that terrorist threats against Americans are minimal in Afghanistan.
Lawmakers met to discuss the global, national and local implications of withdrawing U.S. security forces from Afghanistan, a move President Joe Biden announced in April. Some 13,000 U.S. troops in the country are set to complete their withdrawal by the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and already began moving out at the beginning of May.
The United States is in talks with Turkey regarding its plans for Afghanistan amid US troop withdrawal from that country, Acting US Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Affairs David Helvey said