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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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A Decade In The Making: U.S.-Taliban Peace Deal Appears Within Reach

14th August, 2019 · admin · 1 Comment

By Frud Bezhan Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 14, 2019 In the fall of 2010, U.S. officials secretly met a young Taliban representative outside the southern German city of Munich. Tayyib Agha, a member of the militant group’s political wing, presented the U.S. diplomats with a road map for a negotiated end to the war.

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Posted in Peace Talks, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Ashraf Ghani Government, Zalmay Khalilzad |
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Taliban: Afghan Peace Talks With U.S. ‘Long And Useful’; Sides To Consult

12th August, 2019 · admin

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 12, 2019 U.S. and Taliban negotiators will consult their leaders following an eighth round of peace talks to end the nearly 18-year war in Afghanistan, the Taliban says. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the negotiations in the Qatari capital, Doha, ended early on August 12, adding: “It was long and

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Posted in Peace Talks, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Zalmay Khalilzad |
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At Least 14 Killed, 145 Wounded In Taliban Car Bombing In Kabul

7th August, 2019 · admin

By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan August 7, 2019 KABUL — At least 14 people have been killed and 145 wounded after a Taliban suicide car bomber detonated his vehicle outside a police station in Kabul, according to the Afghan Public Health Ministry. Women and children were among the victims of the attack that occurred at

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Posted in Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Kabul, Zalmay Khalilzad |
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Khalilzad Hails ‘Excellent Progress” In Peace Talks With Taliban

5th August, 2019 · admin · 20 Comments

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 5, 2019 U.S. peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad says he will leave Qatar for India on August 5 following three days of talks with the Taliban to end the nearly 18-year war in Afghanistan. Khalilzad tweeted that the eighth round of talks between U.S. and Taliban negotiators in the Qatari capital,

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Posted in Peace Talks, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Zalmay Khalilzad |
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U.S. Envoy Ready To Sign ‘Good Agreement’ With Taliban As Qatar Talks Resume

3rd August, 2019 · admin

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 3, 2019 The U.S. peace envoy seeking to negotiate an end to the nearly 18-year war in Afghanistan said Washington was ready to sign a “good agreement” with the Taliban. Zalmay Khalilzad’s remarks came as U.S. and Taliban negotiators met on August 3 in the Qatari capital Doha for an

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Posted in Peace Talks, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Zalmay Khalilzad |
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Foreign Meddling: US, Taliban Seek to Make Afghan Election Irrelevant

2nd August, 2019 · admin · 7 Comments

Michael Hughes:  In 2003, then-U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad, with the full backing of the CIA, rendered Afghanistan’s Loya Jirga to a farce by strong-arming aside King Zahir Shah and anointing as president State Department darling Hamid Karzai. Now Zalmay, as special U.S. envoy, is once again guilty of foreign election interference

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Posted in Elections News, Opinion/Editorial, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Peace Talks, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Hamid Karzai, Pakistan takeover of Afghanistan via Taliban, United States handing Pakistan control of Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad |
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Reports: U.S. To Withdraw Thousands Of Troops From Afghanistan

2nd August, 2019 · admin

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 2, 2019 The United States is ready to withdraw a large number of U.S. troops from Afghanistan in exchange for Taliban guarantees to start direct negotiations with Kabul on ending the nearly 18-year war in Afghanistan, U.S. media reported on August 1. The Washington Post and CNN cited unnamed sources

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Posted in Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Peace Talks, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Ashraf Ghani Government, Pakistan takeover of Afghanistan via Taliban, Zalmay Khalilzad |
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