Obama: 34,000 Troops Will Return From Afghanistan By Year’s End

President Obama announced that 34,000 American troops in Afghanistan will return home by the end of 2013, during his State of the Union speech Tuesday. 

“Tonight, I can announce that over the next year, another 34,000 American troops will come home from Afghanistan,” Obama said, according to prepared remarks. “This drawdown will continue.  And by the end of next year, our war in Afghanistan will be over.”