Tolo News: The US State Department on Wednesday said that Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad “will rejoin the talks with the Taliban in Doha to discuss steps that could lead to intra-Afghan negotiations and a peaceful settlement to the ongoing conflict in the country.” Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: Amid reports of disagreements over the list of the participants for the Beijing peace meeting on Afghanistan, the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday said that it expects the plan for such a meeting to be implemented in the near future. When asked whether the meeting was cancelled, Geran Hewad, a spokesman for
Michael Hughes: President Donald Trump during a visit to Afghanistan on Thanksgiving Day surprised the world by announcing that the United States had resumed talks with the Taliban and surprised the Taliban by suggesting that the implementation of a ceasefire was on the negotiating table. Shortly after Trump’s announcement the Taliban underscored that their stance has
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty November 29, 2019 President Donald Trump has said the United States has resumed talks with the Taliban as he made an unannounced Thanksgiving visit to U.S. troops in Afghanistan — his first to the war-torn country since taking office in 2017. “The Taliban wants to make a deal and we’re meeting
Tolo News: Suhail Shaheen, a Taliban spokesman, said on Tuesday in a tweet that the Taliban deputy leader, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, along with his delegation, met with Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif and discussed a “peaceful solution” to the “Afghan issue” and migrant problems in Iran. Ambassador Pierre Mayaudon, the head of the EU’s delegation
AA: Having survived the bloody conflict, the story of Fawzia Koofi, 44, Afghanistan’s first woman member of parliament over the past three decades, encapsulates the trials and tribulations of an ordinary woman under different regimes in the war-torn country. Of late, she has emerged as a crucial and vibrant voice for Afghan women. Click here to
Ayaz Gul VOA News November 23, 2019 ISLAMABAD – U.S. President Donald Trump has indicated peace negotiations with the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan are back on track and vowed again to withdraw American troops from the country. “It is too early to say anything about it,” Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told VOA when asked for
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan November 22, 2019 KABUL — President Ashraf Ghani’s office says the Afghan leader has discussed the government’s seven-point peace plan in a telephone conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump, who insisted on a cease-fire as a “precondition” to begin negotiations with the Taliban. Trump also said that “for any process to succeed,
Tolo News: Second Vice President Mohammad Sarwar Danish on Friday said that the Afghan government is ready to release the Taliban prisoners “within the framework of the prevailing laws of the country” in order to help promote confidence-building measures and create conditions for peace negotiation talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban. Danish said that
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty November 5, 2019 Afghanistan’s Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah has criticized a new peace plan put forward by President Ashraf Ghani as an unrealistic “wish list.” In September, U.S. President Donald Trump stopped months-long negotiations with the Taliban amid ongoing militant violence. Ghani’s team last month released a seven-point proposal aimed at