By the end of 2014, 13 years after they first arrived, US and NATO troops will officially withdraw from Afghanistan. In September 2012, 33,000 additional US troops that President Barack Obama ordered to the war-torn nation to counter Taliban attacks left, leaving 68,000 US troops (part of a NATO force of more than 100,000) in Afghanistan. The bulk of these will be withdrawn over the coming two years, leaving only a 'light footprint' of roughly 10,000 American troops to pursue counter-terrorism efforts - and train and advise Afghan security forces.

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