U.S. troops to withdraw from Afghanistan next week

  26 December 2014    Read: 923
U.S. troops to withdraw from Afghanistan next week
Next week we will be ending our combat mission in Afghanistan," U.S. President Barack Obama said at the meeting with the troops, AzVision.az reports quoting The Washington Post.
“We’ve been in continuous war now for over 13 years. Next week, we will be ending our combat mission in Afghanistan. Because of the extraordinary service of the men and women in the armed forces, Afghanistan has a chance to rebuild its own country,” Obama said.

“We still have some very difficult missions around the world, including in Iraq,” Obama said.

NATO-led combat mission in Afghanistan ended on December 7. Obama said in mid-December that 180,000 U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan would be reduced to 15,000 in both countries in 2015.

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