Phil Stewart writes Afghanistan’s tribal elders assembly, Loya Jirga, is scheduled to meet next month to discuss the new bilateral security agreement.
“Im confident we will reach agreement,” NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told reporters, adding the alliance cannot deploy forces to train the Afghan army without a pact, according to the report.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told Reuters Monday the allies intend to keep troop levels between 8,000 and 12,000Â in the Middle Eastern nation after 2014.