Kabul - Karzai has some company in his opposition to the Bilateral Security Agreement(BSA) between Afghanistan and the United States. Senate chair Fazl Muslimar announced Dec. 2 that he is opposed to signing the agreement.

Karzai just recently said that he would not sign the Bilateral Security Agreement(BSA) unless the US stopped night raids on Afghan homes among other demands. Now the US has launched an air strike that blew up a home killing a child and wounding two women.

Kabul - Although the Loya Jirga or meeting of elders called by Karzai has approved the Bilateral Security Agreement with the US, Karzai still has not signed and now has brought up new demands.

Kabul - The planned 2014 departure of US troops from Afghanistan has reportedly hit a roadblock with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai insisting on new terms and conditions before he signs the bilateral security accord (BSA).

The Loya Jirga or Afghanistan Grand Council requested that the Afghan President Hamid Karzai sign the bilateral security agreement with the US by the end of this year.

Kabul - The US is anxious that the Bilateral Security Pact with Afghanistan be signed by the end of the year. However,Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday (Nov. 21) said that it should wait to be signed after elections for president next year.

Kabul - Up to the last minute there are still negotiations on a draft bilateral security agreement between the US and Afghanistan. A meeting of Afghan elders is set to begin discussing the draft on Thursday.

Kabul - A meeting of Afghan elders, or Loya Jirga, is scheduled to meet on Thursday to consider a bilateral security agreement between the US and Afghanistan that would determine the number and conditions under which US troops remain after 2014,

Kabul - Just days before a scheduled meeting of Afghan elders, a loya jirga, is scheduled to discuss a bilateral security agreement between Afghanistan and the US, a suicide bomber blew his vehicle up just 100 meters from the tent where the meeting will be held.

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Kabul - The Afghan intelligence service has abandoned its investigation into the killing of a group of civilians in Wardak province of Afghanistan after being refused access to the US Special Forces soldiers who are suspected of being involved.

Kabul - A loya jirga or meeting of elders is planned for the third week of November by the Karzai government. The meeting would decide on whether to accept a Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) with the U.S. to give American troops immunity from the Afghan laws.

Kabul - The US Army's Criminal Investigation Command(CID) has started a criminal probe into allegations that US troops were involved in killing civilians in Wardak province in Afghanistan during the period from November 2012 to February 2013.

The US has always maintained when it is negotiating a Status of Forces Agreement(SOFA) that it must retain exclusive jurisdiction over criminal offenses. However, there are many countries where jurisdiction is shared and there is no "standard" agreement.

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Kabul - On November 18-21 about 3,000 Afghan tribal elders will meet in Kabul to pass judgment on a conditional Bilateral Security Agreement(BSA) negotiated by Karzai with US Secretary of State John Kerry.

Kabul - Arsalah Jamal, the governor of the eastern Afghan province of Logar was killed by a bomb in a mosque just as he was delivering a speech to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.

Washington - Voice of America (VOA) and U.S. public diplomacy failed to take full advantage of President Obama's meeting Friday with teenage Pakistani campaigner for girls' education Malala Yousafzai. But Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) did a good job.

Kabul - Governments typically disguise reality in official reports. This is made almost transparent in descriptions of the negotiating process on the bilateral security agreement that would set the conditions for US troops to remain in Afghanistan after 2014.

U.S. special forces carried out 2 separate operations last week, one targeting a high ranking leader belonging to al-Shabab, and the other that targeted an Al-Qaeda member suspected of being involved in the 98 U.S. embassy bombings in Nairobi Kenya.