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Afghans quit talks with Taliban before they begin
KABUL, Afghanistan - Less than a day after the Taliban opened a new political office in Qatar, the prospects for peace talks that it represented for war-weary Afghanistan faltered. The Afghan government said Wednesday that it wouldn’t to send representatives to Qatar after all, and that it was suspending talks with the United States over a key military pact. The problem: When the ...
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Obama Defends Taliban Negotiations Bid
US President Barack Obama defended Wednesday Washington's decision to seek negotiations with the Taliban despite protests from Afghan President Hamid Karzai. "We still believe you've got to have a parallel track to at least look at the prospect of some sort of political reconciliation," he told a news conference in Berlin. "President Karzai himself recognizes the ...
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Afghanistan Talks with the Taliban must focus on justice and human rights
The first round of peace talks with the Taliban is due to take place imminently in Doha, Qatar, where the armed insurgency has recently set up an ...
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U.S. Presses Taliban on Qatar Office in Bid to Save Talks
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Afghan President Karzai to boycott US-Taliban talks
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said his government would not participate in US peace talks with the Taliban, explaining that all such negotiations should be ';Afghan-led';. The announcement came just days before US-Taliban meetings were due to start in Qatar – and less than 24 hours after Karzai had said that he would send a team to take part. A statement from Karzai’s ...
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Taliban Hints At Eventual Power Sharing In Afghanistan
The Taliban has expressed its willingness to share power in Afghanistan a day after the hard-line Islamist group opened a political office in Qatar. Mohammad Naeem, the spokesman for the Qatar office, told RFE/RL that the Taliban want to have an inclusive Afghan government. Naeem said that the Taliban are willing to talk to Afghan President Hamid Karzai's representatives in ...
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What Afghanistan United States Taliban Seek From Doha Talks
It's possible that they won't all sit at the same negotiation table, but the Afghan government, the United States, and the Taliban all have their own wish list for peace negotiations. We look at some of the various expectations, demands, and sticking points among the three main players in the Afghan ...
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Afghanistan Rejects U.S. Interference
Kabul, Jun 19 (Prensa Latina) The Afghan Government today rejected the U.S. interference in its country's peace process, reason for which it decided to withdraw from talks about a bilateral security agreement with Washington. In a statement released in this capital, The National Security Council of Afghanistan says that based on contradictions between The White House's statements and ...
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Taliban peace talks fall apart
Earlier this week, we were told that peace talks with the Taliban would resume in earnest on Thursday, after three years of fits, starts, and fiery clouds of shrapnel. Supposedly Mullah Omar authorized these talks, even though he’s been keeping a very low profile. How low? The rest of the Taliban was basically ready to put his face on milk cartons, according to a May article at ...
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Taliban kills four Americans ahead of Thursday’s peace talks
taliban confirm not just in words but in action that they have renounced all terrorist activity and support, we should not reward them by participating in any reconciliation efforts. so, i guess the question is, what do we get out of these talks? can they ...
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Qatar says Taliban office not for Islamic Emirate
Guests arrive for the opening ceremony of the new Taliban political office in Doha on June 18, 2013. The Taliban office opened in Doha to facilitate peace talks does not carry the name of the "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan," as it appeared earlier, Qatar said on ...
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Taliban in Qatar says no clear definition of terrorism
Qatar , addressing a key issue in upcoming Afghan peace talks, said on Wednesday there was no clear definition of terrorism but suggested the Islamist group would one day clarify what it understood by the term. Speaking in brief remarks to Reuters, Mohammed Naeem, the group's spokesman in Qatar, was asked whether it would comply with a U.S. demand that it renounce al Qaeda during impending ...
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British forces prepare for Afghan exit
Afghanistan said they are working to pull their equipment out of the country without jeopardizing existing obligations. The British Ministry of Defense said there is $17 million worth of infrastructure in place to prepare military equipment for the return home from Afghanistan or for future redistribution. NATO ...
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Karzai boycotts US-backed talks with Taliban because of Pakistani hand
Hamid Karzai suspended negotiation with Washington on Wednesday over a bilateral security agreement, angered by the perceived betrayal of Kabul by the Americans, who in turn appeared to have been suckered by Taliban. The terrorist group, given political stamp of approval by the Obama administration on Tuesday, killed four US soldiers in an attack hours after the talks agreement, despite ...
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Karzai irked over U.S.-Taliban peace talks
Afghanistan's president said Wednesday he will not pursue peace talks with the Taliban unless the United States steps out of the negotiations, while also insisting the militant group stop its violent attacks on the ground after it claimed responsibility for a rocket attack that killed four ...
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Afghanistan threatens to boycott peace talks in anger at Talibans Qatar office
MrKarzaisaid that his High Peace Council would "neither attend nor participate in the talks" until the process is "completely" in the hands of ...
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Obama French President Discuss Afghanistan After Summit
By Claudette RouloAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, June 19, 2013 President Barack Obama held a private meeting yesterday with French President Francois Hollande in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland, following the annual G-8 conference. Speaking to the reporters following the meeting, Obama said the two leaders discussed the progress made by Afghanistan's security forces, now in the ...
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Russia Shares Kabuls Concerns Over US-Taliban Talks
MOSCOW, June 19 (RIA Novosti) – Moscow supports Kabul’s position that peace efforts in the war-torn country should be led by the government of Afghanistan, instead of the United States, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday. The Afghan government earlier on Wednesday suspended security talks with Washington over a dispute regarding the opening of a Taliban representative ...
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Karzai threat to Taliban peace deal
Taliban unless the United States steps out of the negotiations and the militant group stops its violent attacks on the ground.Mr Karzai is upset over the joint US and Taliban announcement that they would begin preliminary peace talks ...
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Hours after peace talks announcement Taliban claim responsibility for attack that killed 4 American troops
Hours after announcing the opening of an office in Qatar for peace talks with U.S. and Afghan representatives, the Taliban claimed responsibility for a rocket attack on the Bagram Air Base that killed four American soldiers. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said insurgents fired two rockets into the base outside the Afghan capital, Kabul, late Tuesday. American officials confirmed the base ...
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The Taliban rebels ready for the peace table
religious extremism . The Taliban emerged in the 1990s, garnering support in Afghanistan by bringing order to rural areas wrecked by warlords, before imposing their austere version of Sunni Islamic law after fighting their way to power in 1996. Television, music and cinema were banned, girls were stopped from going to school, woman had to wear the all-covering burqa and men had to grow beards, ...
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Kabul lashes out over prospective Taliban-US talks
KABUL (AFP) - The Afghan government on Wednesday lashed out at US efforts to broker peace with the Taliban, suspending crucial security talks with Washington and threatening to boycott prospective contacts with the insurgents in Qatar.Kabul issued two strongly worded statements threatening to sabotage US efforts to start talks with the Taliban, just one day after its foes opened an office for ...
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Video Obama says friction in Afghan talks no surprise
Speaking at a press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, President Obama said it's no surprise that there's friction in early efforts to launch peace talks between the Taliban and Afghanistan's ...
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U.S. Defends Peace Talk Efforts With Taliban As Kabul Responds Coolly
Muhammad Naeem (right), a spokesman for the Office of the Taliban of Afghanistan, speaks during the opening of the Taliban Afghanistan Political Office in Doha on June ...
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Afghanistan suspends talks with US
The Afghanistan government made the announcement a day after the Taliban opened an office at Qatar's capital Doha on Tuesday.The US on the same day said they would hold talks with the Taliban soon."In view of the contradiction between acts and the statements made by the United States of America in regard to the Peace Process, the Afghan government suspended the negotiations, currently ...
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Why should American troops remain in Afghanistan?
Afghanistan is widely regarded, even by its own people, as a puppet state, and has little hope of breaking away from US influence in the foreseeable future, there is wide-spread resentment toward foreign troops, and increasingly loud calls in the states for a withdrawal of troops. But, like or not, these two countries have been tied together irrevocably, even before the war on terror.
Since the invasion of Afghanistan by allied forces in 2001, the country’s destiny has in many ways not been its own. Read more
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