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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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • Afghans break off talks with US on security deal

    The Afghan government Wednesday said it has suspended talks with the US on the proposed security agreement, saying America has a contradictory stance over the peace process in the country. "The ongoing fourth round of talks between Afghanistan and the US on the security agreement is suspended. The decision was taken because of US inconsistency in statements and actions in regard to the Afghan ...

  • Afghanistan calls off talks with U.S. on security agreement

    Kabul, June 19 (Xinhua-ANI): The Afghan government on Wednesday announced that it suspended talks with the United States on the proposed security agreement, saying the United States had contradictory stance over the peace process in Afghanistan, local media reported. "The ongoing fourth round of talks between Afghanistan and the United States on the security agreement is suspended. The decision ...


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  • Afghan peace plans in limbo as US placates Karzai

    KABUL (AFP) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday mulled his response to US efforts to repair damaged ties after a public spat over the Taliban opening an office in Qatar for peace talks.Karzai and US Secretary of State John Kerry spoke twice by telephone after the Afghan government became enraged that the office was opened in a blaze of publicity and US officials were apparently about to ...

  • Talibans Doha office to be renamed US

    The Taliban office in Doha will be renamed to remove any reference to the state of Afghanistan, the United States has told Kabul, an Afghan official says.US Secretary of State John Kerry had "assured that the Qatari government has removed the name Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan from the Taliban office," a palace official said on condition of anonymity."It will be called the Bureau ...

  • Hopeful Week In Afghanistan Turns Sour

    Earlier this week, the Obama administration sounded a hopeful note on Afghanistan. It was announced that Afghan forces had taken the lead on security and that the Taliban was opening an office in Qatar, giving hope for renewed peace talks. Within hours, a Taliban attack killed four Americans and Afghan officials called off their talks with the U.S. For a look at where things stand, Renee ...

  • No sign of US Taliban peace talks in Doha

    Preliminary Afghan peace talks in Qatar between US and Taliban officials are unlikely to take place on Thursday as had been expected, a source familiar with the matter told ...

  • Video Why Taliban peace talks are critical to Afghanistans future

    Flash Points: CBS News correspondent Bob Orr talks with CBS News senior national security analyst Juan Zarate about the ongoing struggle to begin peace talks with the Taliban in Afghanistan, and why you "can't see stability" in Afghanistan "until there's a political solution" that incorporates the ...

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