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WASHINGTON, July 6 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama announced Wednesday that he will leave 8,400 American troops in Afghanistan into 2017, slowing the planned drawdown of the U.S. military presence in the country.
Obama said that the security situation in Afghanistan remains "precarious" and that the country's security forces are still "not as strong as they need to be."
His original plan was to draw down U.S. troops in Afghanistan to 5,500 by the end of the year. Enditem
