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President Donald Trump has repeated his pledge to bring U.S. troops “back home” from Afghanistan in his annual State of the Union address. Speaking on February 4 in Washington, Trump called the conflict in Afghanistan “America’s longest war,” saying that “peace talks are now under way.”