UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik), Leandra Bernstein — In recent months, Afghanistan has faced a resurgent Taliban and a growing presence of Islamic State fighters in multiple parts of the country. Afghan authorities have also raised concerns over neighboring Pakistan’s role in harboring insurgents.
"We see that there still is need of more work to fight [the] insurgency," Faisal said on Tuesday. "We still need more efforts to tackle terrorism and still more work is needed to work on this problem."
President Barack Obama, however, continues to support the full withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan by the end of his term in office in 2016. Earlier this year, Obama promised Afghan President Ashraf Ghani that the United States would keep 10,000 troops in the country through the end of 2015.
The Afghan government would prefer troop withdrawal on the basis of "condition than timing," Faisal said, emphasizing that the Afghan government will respect any decision on troop levels determined by the US government.
