Obama makes surprise visit to Afghanistan
Under intense security and the cover of night, President Barack Obama slipped into Afghanistan on Tuesday. He's there to sign an agreement aimed at cementing a lasting US commitment to the nation after the long and unpopular war comes to an end.
Obama is joining Afghan President Hamid Karzai to sign an agreement that will broadly govern the US role in Afghanistan after the American combat mission stops at the end of 2014 — 13 years after it began. (AP)
