Kabul meeting to lay ground for 2014 deadline (AP)

AP - The strategy sits for now on a table in a locked-down Afghan capital: Hand over security in all 34 provinces to the government by the end of 2014 — more than three years after President Barack Obama’s date for the start of an American troop drawdown.

Related posts:

1. Taliban denounce Kabul meeting as sign of failure (AP)
2. NATO wants big pullout from Afghanistan by end-2014 (Reuters)
3. NATO readies for 2014 withdrawal from Afghanistan (Reuters)
4. World leaders seek common ground on crises (AP)
5. Karzai reaffirms 2014 goal for Afghan-led security (AP)