The White House has announced that President Obama has arrived in Afghanistan to meet with President Hamid Karzai and sign the U.S.-Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Agreement. Link (h/t kimoconnor.) According to NBC News, steps were taken to insure that the agreement could be signed on Afghan soil.
Also, the President is reported to be addressing the nation tonight at 7:30 pm EDT.
Details are not being divulged at this point due to security concerns.
The White House schedule still notes that the President is in the Oval Office.
UPDATE 1:Links now coming in:
MSNBC
Under intense security and the cover of night, President Barack Obama slipped into Afghanistan on Tuesday to sign an agreement cementing a U.S. commitment to the nation after the long and unpopular war comes to an end.
Obama was to be on the ground for about seven hours in Afghanistan, where the United States has been engaged in war for more than a decade following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The trip carries major symbolic significance for a president seeking a second term and allows him to showcase what the White House considers the fruit of Obama's refocused war effort: the killing a year ago of 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden
Reuters
President Barack Obama arrived in Afghanistan on Tuesday to sign an agreement charting future relations with the country, making the secret trip on the first anniversary of the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
Obama plans to deliver a televised address to Americans later on Tuesday.
New York Times
KABUL, Afghanistan – President Obama landed here Tuesday, on a surprise visit, to sign a strategic partnership agreement with Afghanistan meant to mark the beginning of the end of a war that has lasted for more than a decade.
Mr. Obama, arriving after nightfall under a veil of secrecy at Bagram Air Base north of Kabul, flew by helicopter to the presidential palace, where he was to meet President Hamid Karzai before both leaders signed the pact. It is intended to be a road map for two nations lashed together by more of than a decade of war and groping for a new relationship after the departure of American troops, scheduled for the end of 2014.
CNN
Washington Post
UPDATE 2 (5pm EDT): White House is live streaming audio address at Bagram Air Base. Ended 5:05pm
UPDATE 3: Formal Presidential Address from Bagram being televised. WH Livestream