Obama, Karzai Sign Accord on U.S. Role in Afghanistan
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President Barack Obama arrived in Afghanistan today on an unannounced trip to sign a strategic partnership agreement with the Afghan government that is a prelude to U.S. military disengagement from the decade-long war.
The accord outlining future U.S. support for Afghanistan took more than a year of negotiations and marks a milestone for the administration’s goal of handing over security responsibility to local forces by the end of 2014.