The American presence is ending but the war in Afghanistan continues with the Afghan government’s forces taking casualties that “cannot be sustained, according to a top officer within the international coalition.”
As Jon Harper of Stars and Stripes reports:
Since the beginning of 2013, the ANSF have suffered almost 9,000 fatalities, U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Joseph Anderson, the commander of the International Security Assistance Force Joint Command, told reporters at the Pentagon on Wednesday. In comparison, the U.S. has lost 2,346 troops in Operation Enduring Freedom since the war began in 2001.
The situation is serious enough that:
… earlier this week, the commander of ISAF indicated that he might ask for more international troops to remain.
