Anonymous ID: 2b6734 Feb. 11, 2020, 3:33 p.m. No.8106427   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Trump Gives Conditional Go Ahead on Peace Deal With Taliban, Officials Say

 

KABUL, Afghanistan — More than 18 years after the United States invaded Afghanistan, President Trump has conditionally approved a peace deal with the Taliban that would withdraw the last American troops from the country, potentially beginning the end of America’s longest war, according to Afghan and American officials.

 

But the deal will only be signed if the Taliban prove their commitment to a durable reduction of violence over a test period of about seven days later this month. If the Taliban do end hostilities and a deal is signed, the United States would then begin a gradual withdrawal of American troops, and direct negotiations would start between the Taliban and Afghan leaders over the future of their country.

 

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo informed Afghanistan’s top leaders in separate phone calls on Tuesday that Mr. Trump had given tentative approval to this approach, according to a senior Afghan official briefed on one of the calls.

 

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/world/asia/afghanistan-taliban-peace-deal.html