The US President Donald Trump has not ordered the Pentagon to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, Garrett Marquis, a spokesman for the National Security Council said.

“The president has not made a determination to drawdown U.S. military presence in Afghanistan and he has not directed the Department of Defense to begin the process of withdrawing U.S. personnel from Afghanistan,” Bloomberg reported quoting Marquis. 

The Wall Street Journal reported earlier the US President Donald Trump had ordered the Pentagon to withdraw over 7,000 US troops from Afghanistan.