KABUL/PESHAWAR, Pakistan - As U.S. and Taliban negotiators push to wrap up talks aimed at securing the withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan, Taliban sources say a pact will not mean an end to fighting with the U.S.-backed Afghan government.
U.S. negotiators have been pressing the Taliban to agree to so-called intra-Afghan talks, meaning with the Kabul government and a ceasefire, but a senior Taliban official said that would not happen. But there are fears among Afghan officials and U.S. national security aides that a U.S. troop withdrawal could see Afghanistan plunged into a new round of civil war that could herald a return of Taliban rule and international militants, including Islamic State, finding a refuge.
“The Americans will not come to the assistance of the Afghan government and its forces in their fight against us,” the first Taliban official said.The U.S. special envoy for reconciliation in Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, has been pressing the Taliban to make a commitment to power-sharing talks with the government and to announce a ceasefire.
There has been no let-up in the fighting over the past year despite the talks. The United States had not stopped conducting air strikes and helping Afghan forces to destroy camps run by the Taliban and Islamic State fighters, a U.S. official said. “A ceasefire between the Afghan forces and the Taliban requires a separate agreement and deliberations are yet to begin,” said one diplomat who has been monitoring the negotiations in Qatar.
taliban have always been the heroes 😘 if US Don’t quit this war they surely will bleed to death. How could people forget USSR ? 🤔
Afghan national army be like🤣
Sorry if anyone would believe the Taliban will stop her attacks is naive
Eliminate all remaining Taliban! Get rid if this cancer once and for all
Then why is it called a peace deal? This is a new war in making🤦🏻♂️
US should also ensure that Taliban and other such elements are punished by air,drone attacks once US troops withdraw. The alternative coalitions against Taliban should be supported.
That's obvious - I want to know what happens to the cia herion syndicate? Afghanistan
Bloody bingai Taliban
Who's fighting who now?
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