Taliban holds secret discussions with US

Baku. Rashad Suleymanov – APA. Taliban announced that it plans to open an office in Qatar for peace talks with the U.S. and its allies. It marks the first public step toward negotiations to end the decade-long war in Afghanistan, former U.S. officials and analysts said, APA reports quoting
Contacts between the Obama administration and the Afghan Taliban, who were ousted from power by the U.S. military in late 2001, have been secret and limited to preliminary discussions between a few U.S. and Taliban representatives over whether peace talks were even feasible, according to a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject. The discussions were held in some European and Gulf countries last year.
Contacts between the Obama administration and the Afghan Taliban, who were ousted from power by the U.S. military in late 2001, have been secret and limited to preliminary discussions between a few U.S. and Taliban representatives over whether peace talks were even feasible, according to a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject. The discussions were held in some European and Gulf countries last year.
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