Hollande to withdraw French troops from Afghan soon

France's new President Francois Hollande has vowed to stick by his pledge to withdraw French troops from Afghanistan by the year's end, two years earlier than the alliance timetable.Hollande's decision to withdraw nearly all of the 3,400 French troops in Afghanistan by the end of 2012 has been a major sticking point at the summit, which breaks with NATO's timetable of a unified pullout by the end of 2014.