Kerry Arrives in Kabul Amid Security Deal Impasse --- KABUL, Afghanistan — With talks on keeping American forces here beyond next year deadlocked, Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Kabul on Friday to try to break the impasse and head off a full American withdrawal from Afghanistan. --- But with neither Afghan nor American officials showing much willingness to compromise, a senior Western diplomat put the odds of a deal at “no better than 50-50.” - More, nytimes