US To Slow Troop Withdrawal From Afghanistan

President Barack Obama has agreed to slow down the US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, after his first White House talks with the war-torn nation's new leader. Mr Obama agreed to keep the 9,800 US troops currently in Afghanistan until the end of 2015, dropping his original plan to halve that number. As part of his pledge to end America's longest war, Mr Obama had planned to pull US troops out of Afghanistan completely by the end of 2016. Mr Ghani, a former World Bank official who onc