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Urgent: Obama to maintain 8,400 U.S. troops in Afghanistan into 2017

Xinhua, July 6, 2016 Adjust font size:

U.S. President Barack Obama announced Wednesday that he will maintain 8,400 American troops in Afghanistan into 2017, slowing the planned drawdown of the U.S. military presence in the country. Endi