Report: White House Tells Top Diplomats To Seek Direct Talks With Taliban

OnlineEditor@theweek.com (Catherine Garcia), The Week
Sun, 07/15/2018 - 8:42pm

Wanting to pave the way for negotiations to end the war in Afghanistan, the White House has directed top U.S. diplomats seek direct talks with the Taliban, several American and Afghan officials told The New York Times. The Taliban, which controls or has influence over 59 of Afghanistan's 407 districts, has long said it wants to first discuss peace with the United States, not the Afghan government, but the U.S.

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