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Why Taliban would talk to U.S.
CNN's Nic Robertson assesses why the Taliban would want to talk now Possibility of a grand bargain between U.S and Taliban is possible but lots of hurdles remain Taliban group agreeing to talks is the one that was in charge of Afghanistan for 9/11 attacks Taliban might think that if civil war returns to Afghanistan they may not be ...
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U.S. official 4 Americans killed at U.S. base in Afghanistan
ISAF says four NATO coalition service members have been killed ISAF did not disclose the nationality of those killed A Pentagon official says the attack happened at Bagram Air ...
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US Taliban to meet in Doha
/enpproperty--> WASHINGTON - The United States will meet the Taliban in the Qatari capital of Doha for a peace process in Afghanistan, US officials said on Tuesday. "The US will have its first formal meeting with the Taliban, and indeed first meeting with the Taliban for several years, in a couple of days in Doha," a senior administration official told reporters via conference ...
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Afghan forces take control of Nato security following news of peace talks
Afghan national forces will lead all military operations in the country from 19 June, President Hamid Karzai has said. Photograph: Xinhua/Landov/Barcroft ...
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Smith outlines Afghan mission post-2014
Australia will maintain an ongoing force of several hundred troops after most of the diggers come home by the end of this year, Defence Minister Stephen Smith has told parliament.Presenting possibly his last update to parliament on the mission in Afghanistan, Mr Smith said the troops remaining would include about 75 personnel, including instructors, support staff and soldiers for protection at ...
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Engagement in Direct Talks by Taliban Reflects Afghanistans Desire for Peace
As Afghan forces took control of their country's security, the Taliban agreed to join the U.S. and Afghanistan for negotiations. Gwen Ifill talks to former Defense Department official David Sedney, retired Col. David Lamm of the National Defense University and Pamela Constable of The Washington Post about this turning ...
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Taliban to Join Talks With Negotiators as Afghanistan Takes Control of Security
A breakthrough could be coming for the longest conflict in American history. Senior U.S. officials say they are scheduled to have direct talks with the Taliban and Afghan negotiators. The announcement came as international forces formally handed over full security control to Afghan authorities. Gwen Ifill ...
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Taliban announces willingness to talk with US
After 12 years fighting our nation's longest war, NATO is handing over control of national security to the Afghans and the Taliban has agreed to talks with the U.S. NBC's Duncan Golestani ...
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Dateline Doha At last it’s time for America to talk to the men from the Taliban
No more long dinners in Qatari restaurants, or idle afternoons in the capital's many shopping centres. Since they were first secretly delivered by US plane to Doha in 2010, the senior Taliban emissaries whom Washington hoped would eventually agree a peace deal with Kabul have not been rushed off their feet; efforts to kick-start a formal negotiating process to end the war repeatedly ...
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Video Afghan military officially takes control of countrys security
President Obama's plan for leaving Afghanistan reached a new milestone Tuesday as the Afghan military officially took responsibility for the country's security. The White House also said it would try again to hold peace talks with the Taliban. Major Garrett ...
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U.S. Taliban to meet in Doha
The United States will meet the Taliban in the Qatari capital of Doha for a peace process in Afghanistan, U.S. officials said on Tuesday. "The U.S. will have its first formal meeting with the Taliban, and indeed first meeting with the Taliban for several years, in a couple of days in Doha," a senior administration official told reporters via conference call. The meeting comes at a ...
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Talking with the Taliban
Muhammad Naeem (R), a spokesman for the Office of the Taliban of Afghanistan, speaks during the opening of the Taliban Afghanistan Political Office in Doha on June 18, 2013. The Afghan Taliban opened the office in Qatar to help restart talks on ending the 12-year-old war, saying it wanted a political solution that would bring about a just government and end foreign occupation. (MOHAMMED ...
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A Look Ahead To The Future Of Afghanistan
Copyright © 2013 NPR. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. JOHN DONVAN, HOST: This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm John Donvan in Washington. Neal Conan is away. Of course somebody needed to mark the occasion today by setting off a bomb. It was Afghanistan, where what is hoped will be a turning point was reached today when a ...
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Afghan peace talks with Taliban at hand but not without their bumps
Qatari Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs Ali bin Fahd al-Hajri, right, and Muhammad Naeem a representative of the Taliban attend a press conference at the official opening of the Taliban office in Doha, Qatar | Osama ...
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Blast Apparently Aimed at an Afghan Politician Kills 3 in Kabul
KABUL, Afghanistan ...
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Journalist Michael Hastings Killed in Car Crash
"We are shocked and devastated by the news that Michael Hastings is gone. Michael was a great, fearless journalist with an incredible instinct for the story, and a gift for finding ways to make his readers care about anything he covered from wars to politicians. He wrote stories that would otherwise have gone unwritten, and without him there are great stories that will go untold. Michael ...
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U.S. Taliban to formally talk peace
After more than a decade of war in Afghanistan, and nearly three years of sputtering and unsuccessful attempts at talks, the United States will open formal negotiations with the Taliban this week aimed at ending terror attacks, officials said on ...
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US Set for Negotiations With Taliban Who Want Commanders Released From Guantanamo Bay
A US Army soldier walks through a cell block at Camp Delta at Guantanamo Naval Base in Guantanamo, Cuba, in 2004. US military hearings on the "enemy combatant" status of 14 top terror suspects began Friday at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba out of sight of the media and defense ...
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US to talk to Taliban as they open Qatar office
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US envoys will launch talks this week with the Taliban, officials announced Tuesday, in a tentative first step towards finding a negotiated escape from the decade-long Afghan war.The chance to start a dialogue came as the Islamist insurgent group opened a political office in the Qatari capital Doha to act as an embassy to its foes in Washington and President Hamid ...
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Obama Hollande hold private meeting after G8
Obama said. The two leaders had a private conversation after the Group of Eight meeting at the Lough Erne Resort in Northern Ireland. Obama, describing France as the "oldest ally" of the United States, said he and Hollande discussed a wide range of issues. On Afghanistan, they discussed the announcement that local authorities are now taking the lead on security. And they talked about ...
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Afghan Business Owners Pin Hopes On Peace Talks
Kabul-based businesswoman Hassina Syed thinks talks with the Taliban are critical for the Afghan economy. She heads The Syed Group of Companies, which includes restaurants, hotels and an export-import business. Syed tells anchor Marco Werman that as US military forces leave her country, she’s already lost the majority of her business. ';I think 60 or 75 percent of damage came up ...
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Former Afghanistan Advisor Not Optimistic About Taliban Talks
The US is to open direct peace talks with the Taliban after more than 10 years of war in Afghanistan, senior White House officials have ...
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US to hold talks with Taliban
United States envoys will meet with Taliban representatives within days, senior officials say, after the Afghan militants opened an office in Qatar to oversee peace negotiations. US-led NATO forces are still fighting Taliban guerillas on the Afghan battlefield, but the unveiling of the Islamist group's Doha mission is the most concrete symbol yet of behind the scenes moves to end the ...
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US military deaths in Afghanistan at 2103
As of Tuesday, June 18, 2013, at least 2,103 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press ...
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Afghanistan peace talks no surrender behind the Talibans white flowers
Afghanistan and sheltered al-Qaida.Separated from journalists by white flower arrangements that would not have looked out of place at a wedding, two Taliban officials caught much of the world by surprise with their offer of peace talks on Tuesday.News that a political delegation would work out of an office in Qatar, first proposed two years ago, brought a glimmer of hope that a decade of ...
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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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