KABUL: A long-delayed security deal on the future of United States forces in Afghanistan is close to being completed, officials said on Sunday, after marathon talks in Kabul between President Hamid Karzai and United States (US) Secretary of State John Kerry.

Both sides said that the issue of US troop immunity remained a sticking pointing after intense efforts to hammer out a deal that would allow between 5,000 and 10,000 US soldiers to remain in Afghanistan after 2014.

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