Afghan President Hamid Karzai listens as U.S. President Obama speaks during a news conference at the White House on Jan. 11, 2013. PHOTO/Whitehouse.org
President Barack Obama will announce in his State of the Union address that 34,000 U.S. troops will be home from Afghanistan within a year, two people familiar with his remarks said Tuesday.
That's about half the U.S. forces currently serving there, and marks the next phase in the administration's plans to formally finish the war by
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