Afghanistan’s Karzai criticizes U.S., exposing tension

KABUL (Reuters) – The top U.S. basic in Afghanistan expressed dismay on Sunday at remarks by President Hamid Karzai, who prompt that Washington benefited from Taliban assaults on his usa. Karzai's remarks, delivered all over the first discuss with through new U.S. Security Secretary Chuck Hagel, further strained already fraught ties between Karzai and the Western allies who’re preventing to give protection to his executive from insurgents. The United States still has 66,000 troops in Afghanistan, down from virtually a hundred,000 two years ago on the height of a surge ordered via President Barack Obama. …