Karzai on US visit as Obama mulls Afghan troop plan
- Published: 8 Jan 2013 at 18.45
- Online news: Asia
President Hamid Karzai will begin a four-day US visit on Tuesday as President Barack Obama weighs how fast to withdraw troops from Afghanistan and whether to leave a "residual force" behind after 2014.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai (right) shakes hands with US President Barack Obama after signing a strategic partnership agreement on May 1, 2012 at the Presidential Palace in Kabul. Karzai will begin a four-day US visit on Tuesday as Obama weighs how fast to withdraw troops from Afghanistan and whether to leave a "residual force" behind after 2014.
Foreign combat soldiers are due to exit Afghanistan by the end of next year, more than a decade after a US-led invasion brought down the Taliban regime in 2001, but the country remains wracked by Islamist violence.
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