Washington: United States President Barack Obama will announce the withdrawal of 34,000 from Afghanistan by early 2014 on Tuesday, US media report said.
The announcement would be made in the President’s State of the Union address on Tuesday. “The president will announce that 34,000 troops will be back from Afghanistan a year from tonight,” the source said on condition of anonymity.
Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai last month agreed to speed the handover of combat operations in Afghanistan to Afghan forces.
There are about 66,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Washington’s NATO allies have been steadily reducing their troop numbers despite doubts about the ability of Afghan forces to shoulder full responsibility for security.
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