The Afghan government says that it's confident that it can take control of the country's security by the end of 2014, when US forces are set to leave.
NATO handed over control of seven areas across the country last month, and is set to continue to do so in the coming days.
Al Jazeera's Charles Stratford spoke to Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, the chief of Afghanistan's Transition Coordination Commission, in Kabul.