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Number of American troops in Afghanistan drops to 8,600 as Taliban make big changes ahead of expected talks
On Monday, four-and-a-half months since the signing, chief U.S. negotiator and peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad tweeted that “a key milestone in the implementation of the U.S.-Taliban agreement” had been reached as American troop numbers dropped to 8,600 from about 12,000 and five bases were closed in Afghanistan.
Military wife sentenced in toddler’s death wasn’t authorized to provide child care in base housing
Toddler's death is second known death of a military child in unauthorized daycare on base in a little more than a year.
By Karen Jowers
Trump says US locked and loaded in response to drone attack
A weekend drone attack on Saudi Arabia that cut into global energy supplies and halved the kingdom’s oil production threatened Sunday to fuel a regional crisis, as the U.S. released new evidence to back up its allegation that Iran was responsible for the assault amid heightened tensions over Tehran’s collapsing nuclear deal.
By Jon Gambrell, The Associated Press and Zeke Miller, The Associated Press
Iran offers to swap seized oil tanker for another taken by UK
In the meantime, Britain continues plans to deploy a Europe-led "maritime protection mission" to safeguard shipping in the area after Iran's Revolutionary Guard seized the Stena Impero in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday.
By Aya Batrawy, The Associated Press