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Tag Archives: Zalmay Khalilzad

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Taliban Denounce Trump’s Move to Call off Peace Talks, Claim US Will Return to Negotiate

8th September, 2019 · admin

Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News September 8, 2019 ISLAMABAD – The Afghan Taliban have denounced President Donald Trump’s decision to call off peace talks with the insurgent group, claiming American interlocuters were happy with a deal both sides had negotiated in Doha, and that September 23 had been decided as a date to move to the

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Posted in Peace Talks, Political News, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Ashraf Ghani, Ashraf Ghani Government, Zalmay Khalilzad |
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Trump Says He Canceled Secret Afghan Peace Talks

8th September, 2019 · admin

By Steve Herman VOA News September 8, 2019 John Walker of VOA’s Afghanistan service contributed to this report.  WHITE HOUSE — U.S. President Donald Trump says he has called off secret talks that were to be held Sunday at Camp David with Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani and “major Taliban leaders.” Trump, in a series of

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Posted in Peace Talks, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Ashraf Ghani, Zalmay Khalilzad |
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Afghan Forces Retake Taliban-Held Key District After 5 Years

7th September, 2019 · admin

Ayaz Gul VOA News September 7, 2019 ISLAMABAD – Officials in Afghanistan Saturday announced that security forces have recaptured a key northeastern district from the Taliban after five years, as heavy clashes raged in provinces elsewhere in Afghanistan. The Taliban has intensified attacks even as its representatives are engaged in a fresh round of peace

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Posted in Peace Talks, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Badakhshan, Farah, Kunduz, Zalmay Khalilzad |
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Taliban Conduct Attacks in Afghanistan Amid Peace Negotiations

6th September, 2019 · admin

Ayaz Gul VOA News September 6, 2019 ISLAMABAD – Officials said Friday Taliban militants conducted an overnight attack on the western Afghan city of Farah, the capital of Farah province. There was no immediate word about casualties among Afghan forces or the Taliban. On Thursday, the NATO-led military alliance said an American soldier and a

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Posted in Peace Talks, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Ashraf Ghani, Farah, Masoom Stanikzai, Zalmay Khalilzad |
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Taliban Claims Deadly Bomb Attack In Kabul; Two NATO Troops Killed

5th September, 2019 · admin · 6 Comments

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 5, 2019 At least 12 people have been killed — including a U.S. and a Romanian soldier — and dozens more injured when a car bomb struck a checkpoint on September 5 in a neighborhood of Kabul that houses the embassies, government buildings, and local NATO headquarters. The fundamentalist Taliban

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Posted in Civilian Injuries and Deaths, NATO-Afghanistan, Peace Talks, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Ashraf Ghani, Masoom Stanikzai, Zalmay Khalilzad |
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U.S., Afghan Taliban Reach Deal ‘In Principle’

2nd September, 2019 · admin · 5 Comments

By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan September 2, 2019 KABUL — The Taliban has agreed “in principle” that any Afghan territory it controls in the future will not be used as a safe haven for terrorists to launch attacks against the United States and its allies, U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad has told RFE/RL.

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Posted in Peace Talks, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Ashraf Ghani Government, Zalmay Khalilzad |
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Final Touches Being Put on Deal As Taliban Reviews Proposal On U.S. Withdrawal

29th August, 2019 · admin · 2 Comments

By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan August 29, 2019 As U.S. and Taliban officials look to apparently seal a historic deal to end the 18-year Afghan conflict, leaders of the extremist militant group are reviewing the proposed agreement at an undisclosed location along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. A senior Taliban commander in Pakistan told the AFP news

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Posted in Peace Talks, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Pakistan takeover of Afghanistan via Taliban, Zalmay Khalilzad |
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Taliban Again Eyeing Power in Afghanistan?

26th August, 2019 · admin · 2 Comments

Ayaz Gul VOA News August 26, 2019 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN – With a draft peace agreement between the United States and the Afghan Taliban circulating after 10 months of negotiations, the insurgent group is pushing a new media campaign boasting about what it describes as the “success” of its past strict Islamic rule. The Taliban was

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Posted in Peace Talks, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Pakistan takeover of Afghanistan via Taliban, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanakzai, Zalmay Khalilzad |
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U.S., Taliban Kick Off Ninth Round Of Afghan Peace Talks In Qatar

22nd August, 2019 · admin

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 22, 2019 U.S. and Taliban negotiators have resumed talks in Qatar to firm up a peace deal to end the nearly 18-year conflict in Afghanistan, reports say. U.S. officials and Taliban spokesmen were quoted as saying that the ninth round of talks started on August 22 in the Qatari capital

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Posted in Peace Talks, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Zalmay Khalilzad |
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Trump: Deal with Taliban on US Troop Withdrawal Might Not Be Acceptable

21st August, 2019 · admin

By Steve Herman VOA News August 20, 2019 Nike Ching and Ayaz Gul contributed to this report. WHITE HOUSE — “Good discussions” are under way about Afghanistan, including between the United States and the Taliban, President Donald Trump said Tuesday. But he cautioned a U.S. troop withdrawal agreement might not be realized. “I don’t know

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Posted in Peace Talks, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Zalmay Khalilzad |
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