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President Barack Obama was back in Washington on Monday after a lightning 32-hour trip to Afghanistan to visit US troops.
As the United States starts exiting the Afghan war, analysts warn that dysfunction in Kabul and its naked hostility towards the White House jeopardise the US goal of handing over security in 2014.
Afghanistan has formally banned eight foreign private security firms, including the controversial company formerly called Blackwater.
Sixteen Afghans including women and children were killed in their homes by a rogue US soldier in a pre-dawn rampage, plunging relations between the two countries into a new crisis.
The United States' announcement that it intends to hold negotiations with the Afghan Taliban is an opportunity to manage the Western 'exit" from the country by 2014, writes Stefan Wolff.
The latest developments from Afghanistan. The delaying of the formation of the Taliban government, the reopening of Kabul airport and the Panjshir valley attacks. These will be the issues discussed with our correspondent Roland Bidjamov.
Abdullah Abdullah is on 44.4 per cent, ahead of Ashraf Ghani on 33.2 per cent in the Afghan presidential election, with a run-off vote likely.
Whoever emerges victorious in the Afghan election must lead the fight against the Taliban without the help of US-led combat troops.
Afghanistan's former intelligence chief says he knew Osama bin Laden was hiding in Pakistan four years ago, but Pakistan's leaders rejected his claims.
Hamid Karzai, the President of Afghanistan, shook hands with Barack Obama, his American counterpart, on the weekend and thanked Americans for their 'taxpayer money" and the help that cash has provided over the past years.