U.S. peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad met with Taliban representatives in Doha and with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in Kabul.
Forget the art of the deal, President Trump is bent on pulling U.S. troops out of Afghanistan and ending America’s longest war before the election.
U.S. Department of Defense officials have told the Associated Press their biggest worry in Afghanistan is an increasingly active Islamic State affiliate headquartered in the east. The group has ties to Middle Eastern affiliates as well as militant groups like the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and the Chinese Uighur group, East Turkestan Islamic Movement.
The increased Islamic State activity in Afghanistan has added urgency to U.S. efforts to resuscitate the peace deal, which commits the Taliban to fight terrorist groups in Afghanistan. The same Department of Defense officials said they want the Taliban in the battle to rout Islamic State from Afghanistan.
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US envoy working to resuscitate flagging Afghan peace dealThe first visit to Kabul by Washington’s peace envoy since Afghanistan’s squabbling political leadership reached a power-sharing deal comes amid a rise in violence blamed mostly on an Islamic State affiliate that has been targeted in stepped-up US bombing.
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US envoy working to resuscitate flagging Afghan peace dealSome 12,000 American soldiers have been deployed to train and aid the Afghan National Security Forces, costing Washington about $4 billion annually to keep Afghanistan's military in fighting form.
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