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Taliban ready to resume peace talks with US
The Taliban said today they were ready to restart peace talks with the United States, a day after President Donald Trump made a surprise visit to US troops in Afghanistan and said he believed the radical group would agree to
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Trump makes surprise Afghanistan trip, hopes for ceasefire with Taliban
US President Donald Trump made a surprise Thanksgiving visit to US troops in Afghanistan yesterday and said he believed Taliban insurgents would agree to a ceasefire in America’s longest war. Trump’s visit was his first to Afghanistan since becoming president
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“Trump’s decision will cause more American deaths”
KABUL/WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump’s decision to cancel Afghan peace talks will cost more American lives, the Taliban said on Sunday while the United States promised to keep up military pressure on the militants, in a stunning reversal of efforts to
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Trump cancelled peace talks with Taliban due to attacks
WASHINGTON: U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday said he canceled peace talks with Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders after the insurgent group claimed responsibility last week for an attack in Kabul that killed an American soldier and 11 other people. Trump said
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Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan would risk civil war
The majority of America’s ambassadors to Afghanistan since the removal of the Taliban government have condemned the US approach to negotiating a troop withdrawal, warning it risked a return to “total civil war”. Writing the day after a draft agreement
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US-Taliban deal would see 5,400 troops withdraw
The US would withdraw 5,400 troops from Afghanistan within 20 weeks as part of a deal “in principle” with Taliban militants, Washington’s top negotiator has said. Zalmay Khalilzad revealed details of the long-awaited deal for the first time in a
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