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U.S. Unconditional Withdrawal Rattles Afghanistan's Shaky Peace Talks


Updated April 29, 2021 at 2:14 PM ET
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan When the Biden administration took office, American diplomats got to work on a plan to reenergize Afghanistan s sputtering peace talks.
The showpiece: a U.S.-backed conference in Istanbul, Turkey, that would gather the Taliban and Afghan government, alongside regional and international backers. It was meant to help the two sides create a framework for talks, while speeding up negotiations on key issues before U.S. and foreign forces depart Afghanistan, according to American diplomatic officials who spoke to NPR on condition of anonymity in the weeks leading up to the conference scheduled to have begun over the weekend. ....

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan When the Biden administration took office, American diplomats got to work on a plan to reenergize Afghanistan s sputtering peace talks.
The showpiece: a U.S.-backed conference in Istanbul, Turkey, that would gather the Taliban and Afghan government, alongside regional and international backers. It was meant to help the two sides create a framework for talks, while speeding up negotiations on key issues before U.S. and foreign forces depart Afghanistan, according to American diplomatic officials who spoke to NPR on condition of anonymity in the weeks leading up to the conference scheduled to have begun over the weekend. ....

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