According to Al Jazeera the U.S. – Afghan strategic partnership " is expected to provide for several thousand US troops to stay and train Afghan forces and help with counter-terrorism operations . It would outline the legal status of those forces , their operating rules and where they would be based . " The Obama administration hoped to finalize the U.S. – Afghan strategic partnership before the 2012 NATO Summit in Chicago , but US efforts to finalize this partnership after one year of talks between the Afghanistan and American government were complicated by incidents involving the U.S. such as the burning of copies of the Quran and the death of 17 Afghans in southern Afghanistan
the death of 17 Afghans in southern Afghanistan
Kandahar massacre
U.S.–Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Agreement