Obama to deliver statement on Afghanistan 

President Obama will deliver a statement on Afghanistan Wednesday morning, according to the White House's press office.
The president will be addressing the nation from the White House's Roosevelt Room at 10:25 a.m., joined by Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staffs Gen. Joseph Dunford.
Earlier this month, Carter reportedly told NATO allies that the U.S. could reconsider withdrawing its thousands of troops from Afghanistan by 2017.
According to British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon, Carter told allies that "the troop numbers and the dispositions are being looked at again."
The last time Mr. Obama gave a statement on Afghanistan from the White House, he announced that the U.S. would slow the pace of its troop draw-down in the country.
"While America's combat mission in Afghanistan may be over, our commitment to Afghanistan and its people endures," the president said in October of last year. "I will not allow Afghanistan to be used as a safe haven for terrorists to attack our nation again."
In October, Mr. Obama said that American troops -- approximately 9,800 of them -- would remain on the ground to stick to a "narrow but critical" mission of training Afghan forces to fight terrorism in the region.
The president is heading to NATO Thursday to discuss the military presence in Afghanistan with the coali‎tion.