Hillary Clinton backs Obama's Afghan move

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said she supports President Barack Obama's decision to keep 5,500 US troops in Afghanistan when he leaves the White House in 2017.

Clinton said Friday in an interview with CNN that Obama's moves were an example of "a leader who has strong convictions about what he would like to see happen but also pays attention to what's going on in the real world."

Clinton, who served as Obama's secretary of state during his first term, said the US wants to bring its troops home and "we certainly don't want them engaged in on-the-ground combat. We want them to help support and train the Afghan army."