US, NATO, Afghanistan confident on post-2014 troop accord
October 23, 2013  22:09
The United States, its NATO partners and Afghanistan voiced confidence today that an agreement will soon be reached to allow some alliance troops to remain after next year's withdrawal. 

The US-Afghan Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) is intended to lay out out the role and legal framework for US soldiers to stay in Afghanistan as part of a NATO training and advisory mission, but has been bogged down in disagreement over troop immunity.
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