The troops will be left after a major withdrawal in 2014
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The US plans to withdrawal most of its troops from Afghanistan by 2014, but plans to leave a small force. US officially had not publicly said how many troops would remain exactly, but a German official recently said he was told 8,000-12,000 US troops would remain. The Guardian has more: