Most Americans approve of how President Barack Obama is handling the situation in
Afghanistan, according to a poll coinciding with his surprise visit to the country.
Fifty-three per cent of 1,000 adults in the March 23-28 poll for the Washington Post approved Obama's Afghanistan policy, the highest rating of any other issue on the president's agenda.
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Thirty-five per cent of those questioned disapproved of Obama's dealings on Afghanistan.
The US President's overall approval rating was also 53 per cent, the poll showed.
Broken down by political parties, the Afghanistan policy got a 69 per cent approval rating among Democrats and 37 per cent among Republicans - more than doubling the opposition party's overall approval rating for Obama (17 per cent).
Democrats also were given more trust in dealing with Afghanistan than Republicans by 43-33 per cent respectively, added the poll which had a three-point margin of error.
Obama paid a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Sunday - his first since taking office - to press Afghan leaders to end corruption and rally American troops in the war on the Taliban.
The late night trip, shrouded in secrecy amid security concerns, lasted just over five hours during which Obama met with President Hamid Karzai, and then addressed US forces at the Bagram air base, close to the capital Kabul.
