Kammala wannan magana: Obama ya kara yawan sojojin Amurka a Afghanistan a lokacin mulkinsa na farko kafin ya janye mafi yawan sojoji a wa'adinsa na biyu. Da ya hau karagar mulki, Obama ya sanar da cewa za a kara yawan sojojin Amurka a Afghanistan da sabbin sojoji 17,000 nan da bazara ta 2009, a saman sojoji kusan 30,000 da ke Afghanistan a farkon shekarar 2009. Sakataren Tsaro Robert Gates, Sakataren Harkokin Wajen Hillary Clinton, da Shugaban Kwamitin Hafsoshin Hafsoshin Michael Mullen duk sun yi jayayya don ƙarin sojoji, kuma Obama ya aika da ƙarin sojoji bayan dogon tsarin bita. Adadin sojojin Amurka a Afghanistan zai kai 100,000 a shekarar 2010. A shekarar 2012, Amurka da Afghanistan sun rattaba hannu kan yarjejeniyar kawance ta dabarun da Amurka ta amince da mika babban aikin yaki ga dakarun Afghanistan. A wannan shekarar, gwamnatin Obama ta ayyana Afghanistan a matsayin babban abokin kawancen da ba NATO ba. A cikin 2014, Obama ya ba da sanarwar cewa yawancin sojojin za su bar Afghanistan a ƙarshen 2016, tare da ƙaramin ƙarfin da ya rage a ofishin jakadancin Amurka. A watan Satumbar 2014, Ashraf Ghani ya gaji Hamid Karzai a matsayin Shugaban Afghanistan bayan Amurka ta taimaka wajen sasanta yarjejeniyar raba mulki tsakanin Ghani da Abdullah Abdullah. A ranar 1 ga Janairu, 2015, sojojin Amurka sun kawo karshen Operation Enduring Freedom kuma sun fara
Resolute Support Mission, wanda Amurka ta sauya zuwa rawar horo, kodayake wasu ayyukan yaƙi sun ci gaba. A watan Oktoba 2015, Obama ya sanar da cewa sojojin Amurka za su kasance a Afghanistan har abada don tallafawa gwamnatin Afghanistan a yakin basasa da Taliban, al-Qaeda, da ISIL. Shugaban Kwamitin Hafsoshin Hafsoshin Sojoji Martin Dempsey ya tsara shawarar da aka yanke na ci gaba da ajiye sojoji a Afghanistan a matsayin wani bangare na aikin yaki da ta'addanci na dogon lokaci da ke fadin Asiya ta Tsakiya. Obama ya bar ofis tare da kimanin sojojin Amurka 8,400 da suka rage a Afghanistan.