Obama to Keep Troops in Afghanistan Beyond 2016
President Barack Obama will keep 5,500 U.S. troops in Afghanistan when he leaves office in 2017

US army soldiers walk as a NATO helicopter flies overhead at coalition force Forward Operating Base (FOB) Connelly in the Khogyani district in the eastern province of Nangarhar, on Aug. 13, 2015. Wakil Kohsar/AFP/Getty Images
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