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[00:00.56]President Barack Obama announced on Thursday
[00:04.36]that he will slow the planned withdrawal of United States forces from Afghanistan.
[00:11.64]The announcement came a day after the president said
[00:15.44]he would send troops to Cameroon
[00:18.48]to help in the fight against Boko Haram militants.
[00:22.96]Under Mr. Obama's leadership,
[00:25.84]the U.S. has led an international coalition
[00:29.48]against the Islamic State group for more than a year.
[00:34.31]Islamic State forces control parts of both Syria and Iraq.
[00:40.88]Mr. Obama was elected in 2008
[00:45.04]partly because he promised to bring American troops home
[00:49.72]and end the long wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
[00:55.88]Many Americans had grown tired of the wars
[01:00.00]and wanted their sons and daughters who were fighting them to come home.
[01:06.12]On Thursday, the president said he knows this is still what the American people want.
[01:13.88]"I know that many of you have grown weary of this conflict.
[01:16.36]As you all are well aware, I do not support the idea of endless war."
[01:20.76]Mr. Obama has said many times during his two terms
[01:25.68]that he wants American troops removed from conflict areas
[01:31.28]by the time he leaves office.
[01:34.76]In May of 2014, he spoke to soldiers at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
[01:43.24]He told them that most of the American troops
[01:47.64]who were then in Afghanistan would be home
[01:52.16]by the time he left office in January 2017.
[01:58.40]But Afghan troops have not been able to provide security for the country.
[02:05.72]On Thursday, President Obama said
[02:09.40]"Afghan forces are still not as strong as they need to be."
[02:16.00]Afghanistan's former Taliban rulers and their supporters continue to threaten security.
[02:24.23]The Taliban has surprised U.S. officials with its strength
[02:30.68]and ability to control rural areas
[02:34.36]and launch deadly attacks on cities.
[02:37.96]"The bottom line is in key areas of the country, the security situation
[02:42.08]is still very fragile, and in some places there's risk of deterioration."
[02:48.12]So Mr. Obama announced this week
[02:51.80]that he has decided to keep the number of American troops in Afghanistan
[02:57.36]at 9,800 through most of 2016.
[03:03.44]He plans to reduce that number to 5,500
[03:08.28]by the time he leaves office in early 2017.
[03:13.64]At one time, there were 100,000 American troops in the country.
[03:20.44]Two thousand, two hundred Americans have died in the fighting.
[03:25.92]Officials say the president made his decision
[03:29.62]after months of talks with U.S. military leaders and Afghan officials.
[03:35.96]Many officials were worried
[03:38.76]when Afghan forces lost control of the northern city of Kunduz
[03:44.44]for a short time to Taliban militants.
[03:48.92]Also this week, President Obama ordered the military
[03:53.92]to send about 300 American troops to the central African nation of Cameroon.
[04:01.36]He announced the deployment in a letter sent to the heads of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
[04:09.04]Mr. Obama wrote that about 90 U.S. troops
[04:14.44]began deploying to Cameroon on Monday.
[04:18.84]They will use unmanned aircraft to find Boko Haram militants.
[04:25.64]A U.S. defense official said that Cameroon invited the troops
[04:30.76]as part of a larger international effort to stop the spread of violent extremists.
[04:38.92]The official said the need for international action has,
[04:43.48]in the official's words, become "more urgent
[04:47.76]as Boko Haram and other organizations ramped up their violent activities."
[04:56.56]Boko Haram has been active in northern Cameroon.
[05:01.32]The area is near their main base in northeastern Nigeria.
[05:07.08]The group has killed hundreds of civilians in Cameroon
[05:11.72]and at least 10,000 in Nigeria over the past few years.
[05:17.76]An American defense official said it is not known how long the troops would be in Cameroon.
[05:27.24]The official said they would stay "as long as (their) presence is requested."
[05:33.40]I'm Christopher Jones-Cruise.
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