will be over. combat operations will be, anyway, with more than two-thirds of the troops leaving before new year's. as president obama announced just a short time ago. and we will have service members in different parts of the country by the end of 2016. our military will draw down to a normal number in kabul with a security component just as we have done in iraq. >> the president today appearing to take something like a close to zero option and almost full withdrawal by 2016. senior administration official tells me the u.s. will still probably have close to a thousand u.s. service members remaining there after 2016 to