U.S. soldiers board a U.S. military plane, as they leave Afghanistan, at the U.S. base in Bagram north of Kabul, Afghanistan. The United States is not alone in pulling combat troops off the Afghan battlefield. More than a dozen other countries have draw down plans that combined with the U.S. withdrawal will shrink the foreign military footprint in Afghanistan by more than 40,000 troops by the close of next year. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq, File)
U.S. soldiers board a U.S. military plane, as they leave Afghanistan, at the U.S. base in Bagram north of Kabul, Afghanistan. The United States is not alone in pulling combat troops off the Afghan battlefield. More than a dozen other countries have draw down plans that combined with the U.S. withdrawal will shrink the foreign military footprint in Afghanistan by more than 40,000 troops by the close of next year. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq, File)
