France

President Sarkozy announced that France would begin to draw down its more than 4,000 troops from Afghanistan. The withdrawal would begin in months and would be “in a proportional manner and in a timeframe similar to the pullback of the American reinforcements.”

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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