By David Francis with Sabine Muscat
Carter makes a splash on his first overseas trip as Defense secretary. It didn’t take long for new defense chief Ashton Carter to shake things up. During an unannounced trip to Afghanistan, Carter said the United States and the government in Kabul were closing in on an agreement to keep American troops on the ground longer, reports the Washington Post’s Craig Whitlock. Today, Carter is in Kuwait at a meeting he convened with other U.S. officials in an effort to better understand the threat posed by the Islamic State, AFP’s Dan De Luce reports.
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Source: Foreign Policy
