A US envoy and the Taliban resume negotiations on ending America's longest war after earlier signalling they were close to a deal
In this May 28, 2019 file photo, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban group's top political leader, third from left, arrives with other members of the Taliban delegation for talks in Moscow, Russia.
Baradar is one of the Taliban's founders and has perhaps the strongest influence on the insurgent group's rank-and-file members. The US and the Taliban have held eight previous rounds of negotiations in the past year on issues including a US troop withdrawal, a cease-fire, intra-Afghan negotiations to follow and Taliban guarantees that Afghanistan will not be a launch pad for global terror attacks.
Trump this week also said Afghanistan remains dangerous and "we have to have a presence" — a stance that could complicate talks with the Taliban, whose top demand has been the departure of all US and allied troops, which number close to 20,000. A Taliban spokesman said the commander of US forces in Afghanistan, Gen. Scott Miller, was at the negotiations in Qatar on Thursday.
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