Afghanistan’s security situation has worsened since NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure....
formally ended combat operations in 2014, as the Taliban
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battle to re-impose Islamic laws following their overthrow in 2001 at the hands of US-led troops.
Leaders of the hardline group met US special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad at their political headquarters in Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...last week for the second time in the past month, said front man Zabiullah Mujahid. "These were preliminary talks and no agreement was reached on any issue," he said in a statement on Monday.
Taliban leaders had not accepted any deadline set by the US to wrap up talks, three Taliban officials added.
The US embassy in Kabul declined to comment.
Khalilzad, an Afghan-born US diplomat authorised by US President Donald Trump
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’s government to lead peace negotiations with the Taliban, on Sunday said he hoped to cut a peace deal with the group by April 20. That deadline coincides with the date set for Afghan presidential elections.