An additional 4,000 American troops are headed for Afghanistan, a Trump administration official told The Associated Press on Thursday.
The forces will join nearly 10,000 U.S. troops embedded in a war-torn country where combat operations technically came to an end in 2014. The Pentagon is hoping the deployment will break a stalemate between American-backed Afghan forces and Taliban fighters.
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