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President Joe Biden is testing whether he can bring sweeping changes in Afghanistan, including a potential government involving the Taliban, in a high-risk strategy as he weighs whether to honor a May deadline to end America's longest war. In a letter leaked to Afghan media over the weekend, Secretary of State Antony Blinken encouraged Afghan leaders to...
The State Department has announced negotiations with the Taliban and the Afghan government will resume in Qatar. The Biden administration looks to be reviewing a deal made by the Trump administration while the Taliban has warned any change to a promised May 1st exit deal would ‘doom’ talks...
Scott Worden, US Institute of Peace Director Afghanistan and Central Asia Programs, joined Julie Mason to discuss the one year anniversary of US-Taliban Peace Deal.
One year after the signing of the February 29, 2020 US-Taliban provisional peace agreement, the Afghan group called for the withdrawal of all foreign troops by a May 1 deadline. Any attempt to renegotiate the accord will result in the failure of peace efforts, the Taliban warned in a statement released to the press...
The declarations of good intentions of the delegations of the government of Kabul and the Taliban before their return to Doha, Tuesday, January 5, for the continuation of the Afghan peace talks, after three weeks of hiatus, have fizzled. A few hours were enough for the masks to fall, raising fears of the worst for the future of...
In announcing thousands of troops would be pulled out of Afghanistan, President Donald Trump was meeting the mood of the United States but also opening the door to growing, if still limited, influence by US adversaries, experts say. Iran, China, Russia, Pakistan and India all...
Washington scrambled Thursday to make sense of President Trump’s plans for Afghanistan after he said all U.S. troops “should” be “home by Christmas.” The suggestion, delivered in a Wednesday evening tweet, came just hours after his own national security adviser said the...
The decision to reduce the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan is linked to the intra-Afghan negotiations, retired U.S. General Joseph Votel told VOA in an interview. “It would seem that the start of this [intra-Afghan peace process] would be an opportunity where we...
ISIS militants in Afghanistan carried out a brazen attack on a prison located in the Eastern parts of the country Sunday night. As The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports, the attack, which went on for about 20 hours, raises questions about security and peace talks.
The Taliban announced a temporary cease-fire Tuesday as pressure builds to bring the militants and the Afghan government together for direct peace talks now months overdue. The Afghan government welcomed the move marking the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha and...