
The U.S. military has stepped up air strikes against enemy forces in Afghanistan as part of the Trump administration’s new strategy for the war-torn country, Defense Secretary James Mattis said Oct. 3.The increased air activity, which is at its highest level in five years, is “embedded in the revised strategy,” Mattis testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee during a hearing devoted to Afghanistan. The Trump administration unveiled the strategy in August in an effort to shore up Afghan forces…