Obama makes surprise visit to Afghanistan

US President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai have signed the new Strategic Partnership Agreement that will govern relations between their two countries.The signing ceremony took place yesterday in Kabul, during a previously unannounced visit of the US president to the Afghan capital.
The agreement provides US forces with access to Afghan security facilities even after the last US combat troops leave the country in 2014. In addition, the agreement formally designates Afghanistan a “Major Non-NATO Ally” of the United States. Obama said the signing ceremony won't - at the stroke of a pen - end the country's problems, though he also told reporters in Kabul that the signing ceremony sets the stage for a "future of peace" in Afghanistan.
The United States invaded Afghanistan along with its allies in October, 2001, less than a month after the Sept 11^th attacks by al-Qaeda terrorists who had received major support from the then-ruling Taliban regime.
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