Obama: 30,000-plus surge troops to leave Afghanistan

Beginning to wind down a long and devastating war, President Barack Obama announced Wednesday night he was pulling home 33,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan by next summer, withdrawing the “surge” of forces he had sent to rescue a flailing effort. Said Obama to a country eager for an exit: “The tide of war is receding.”

By: By Ben Feller, The Associated Press, The Jamestown Sun