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  • Afghanistan to shun US peace talks with Taliban Afghanistan to shun US peace talks with Taliban

    KABUL - An angry Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Wednesday his government would not join US peace talks with the Taliban "until the peace process is totally under Afghan control." He also suspended talks with the US to discuss the nature of US military presence after international troops withdraw in 2014. A spokesman for President Hamid Karzai said the decision was taken over ...

  • U.S. moves to calm Karzais anger over Taliban peace talks plan

    The United States is trying to save a plan to open peace talks with the Taliban amid a diplomatic row between Washington and the Afghan President Hamid Karzai over how the process was announced. Repeated phone calls by US Secretary of State John Kerry have not mollified Karzai, who accused the Obama administration of duplicity. Irritated by a press conference in Qatar at which the Taliban ...

  • Kerry calls Karzai over Taliban office issue

    US Secretary of State John Kerry called up Afghan President Hamid Karzai in a bid to defuse tensions over opening of a Taliban office in Qatar, an Afghan spokesperson said Wednesday. Washington and Kabul had disagreed over the new Taliban office in Qatari capital city of Doha. Karzai is now expected to continue security talks with the US, which he had suspended in protest over the office, BBC ...

  • Karzai to boycott talks with Taliban

    The Afghan government will not take part in peace talks with the Taliban unless the process is "Afghan-led", President Hamid Karzai said Wednesday, a day after the US said it would talk with the Taliban in their new office in Qatar. Karzai said the opening of the Taliban office contradicted earlier US security guarantees to his government, BBC reported. He said that in protest he would suspend ...

  • Afghan Taliban Ready For Prisoner Swap Peace Talks Appear Delayed

    Afghanistan's Taliban says it is ready to exchange a U.S. soldier held captive since 2009 for five senior Taliban members imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay. Shaheen Suhail, spokesman at the Taliban's new Qatar office, told the Associated Press on June 20 that the U.S. soldier "is, as far as I know, in good condition." Suhail said the prisoner exchange was the first item on ...


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  • China urges intl community to aid Afghanistan peace process

    A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman on Thursday urged the international community to continue to offer assistance for the reconciliation process in Afghanistan."China maintains that the international community, on the basis of respecting Afghanistan's independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity, should provide necessary assistance for the reconciliation process," ...

  • Coalition Afghan Forces Arrest Extremists in Paktia Province

    From an International Security Assistance Force Joint Command News Release KABUL, Afghanistan, June 20, 2013 – A combined Afghan and coalition security force arrested three extremists during a search for a senior Haqqani network leader in the Zurmat district of Afghanistan's Paktia province today, military officials reported. The Haqqani leader organizes and executes attacks against ...

  • Report Taliban offers to swap American POW for five Gitmo detainees

    By Matthew DeLuca, Staff Writer, NBC News A senior spokesman for the Afghan Taliban said the group is ready to hand over the only known American prisoner of war from the conflict in Afghanistan in exchange for five senior operatives held at Guantanamo Bay, the Associated Press reported Thursday.U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, 27, from Hailey, Idaho, has been held captive since 2009 after going ...

  • Afghanistan peace talks US-Taliban meeting in Qatar cancelled

    Hamid Karzai, who was irritated by a press conference in Qatar at which the Taliban effectively portrayed themselves as a government in exile. Photograph: Omar ...

  • Kyrgyzstan votes to end US lease of airbase crucial to supplying Afghan war effort in 2014

    BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan - Kyrgyzstan has voted to end the United States' lease on an airbase key to supplying military operations in nearby Afghanistan. Lawmakers in the mountainous Central Asian republic voted 91-5 Thursday in favour of ending the agreement in June 2014 to lease the Manas Transit Center. The bill will come into force when it is signed by President Almazbek Atambayev, who has ...

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