(FILES) In this file photo a US soldier from 4th Infantry Division 4 Brigade Alpha Company presents a gift to an Afghan child during a patrol at Khogyani in Nangarhar on February 20, 2010. - The US pullout from Afghanistan is at least 16 percent and as much as a quarter complete, the Pentagon's Central Command said on May 25, 2021. The US military has a deadline of September to remove the 2,500 troops, 16,000 civilian contractors and hundreds of tons of equipment that were inside Afghanistan at the beginning of this year. (Photo by KIM JAE-HWAN / AFP)