Carolyn Kaster/AP President Donald Trump is poised to announce he's pulling roughly 4,000 US troops out of Afghanistan, possibly within the next week, NBC News reported. This would be an initial step in Trump's broader goal of pulling all US troops out of Afghanistan by the election next year in November 2020. There are currently somewhere between 12,000 to 13,000 US troops in Afghanistan. Trump in 2016 campaigned on pulling the US out of wars like Afghanistan, but has been unable to make good on that promise since entering the White House.