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Karzai says no peace talks with the Taliban unless only Afghans involved and violence ends
Top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, Joseph Dunford, talks to media representatives at the ISAF headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, June, 18, 2013. Dunford said NATO will support any positive movement to bring reconciliation between the Afghan people and Taliban. American officials say U.S. representatives will begin formal meetings with the Taliban in a few days at the ...
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U.S. talks with Taliban likely to take place within next few days U.S. official
Muhammad Naeem (2nd R), a spokesman for the Office of the Taliban of Afghanistan, stands next to a translator speaking during the opening of the Taliban Afghanistan Political Office in Doha June 18, ...
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No US-Taliban talks scheduled US
The United States has not scheduled talks with the Taliban, the State Department says, after reports that discussions with the Afghan insurgent group could begin this week in Qatar."Reports of a meeting being scheduled or on the books aren't accurate," spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters, saying Washington had "never confirmed" the date and place of any specific ...
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Interview Taliban Spokesman Says Qatar Office Marks Beginning Of Political Track
Qatar -- Muhammad Naeem, a spokesman for the Office of the Taliban of Afghanistan, speaks during the opening of the Taliban Afghanistan Political Office in Doha, ...
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Karzai suspends security talks and accuses US of inconsistent statements
Hamid Karzai. Negotiations on a bilateral security agreement (BSA) between the US and Afghanistan began earlier this year. Photograph: S ...
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Afghanistan State Dept denies reports of US-Taliban talks
Afghan men on a motorcycle drive past Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers on guard outside Bagram military base. The Taliban on June 19 claimed responsibility for an audacious attack in Afghanistan that killed four US troops mere hours after Washington said it would talk to the insurgents about ending more than a decade of war. Reports of talks between the United States and the Taliban are ...
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US says no Taliban talks scheduled
The US has not scheduled talks with the Taliban, the US State Department says. A spokeswoman for the department said Washington "never confirmed" a date or place for a meeting with the Islamic political group, AFP reported. "Reports of a meeting being scheduled or on the books aren't accurate," Jen Psaki said. "We are now in consultations with the Afghan ...
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Afghans blast US over Taliban office
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. The Afghan Taliban opened the office in Qatar to help restart talks on ending the 12-year-old war. REUTERS/Mohammed ...
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Video Karzai announces suspension of security talks with U.S.
Afghan president Hamid Karzai has announced he is suspending security talks with the U.S., due to Afghan officials' concerns about planned peace talks between the U.S. and the Taliban. Just hours after announcing their intention to engage in the talks, the Taliban took responsibility for killing 4 American soldiers. Charlie D'Agata ...
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As Karzai blusters over Taliban more trouble in Afghanistan
Afghan President Hamid Karzai suspended talks with the US over a new Status of Forces Agreement, furious that the US is trying to join peace talks with the Taliban in ...
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Afghan officials say U.S. broke promise on Taliban office
By Hamid Shalizi and Dylan WelchKABUL (Reuters) - - Senior Afghan officials accused the United States on Wednesday of breaking written assurances to Kabul that a new Taliban office in Qatar would not be used as a de facto diplomatic mission.The accusation, by two senior Afghan officials speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, came hours after Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced the ...
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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
KABUL, Afghanistan ...
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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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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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