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Taliban seek venue change for peace talks with US to Qatar
Jan 06, 2019 12:27Taliban militants say they will not attend planned peace talks with the United States in Saudi Arabia this month and want a shift of venue to Qatar, the political headquarters of the group.
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Iran supports peace process, democracy in Afghanistan: Deputy FM
Jan 05, 2019 16:41Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Abbas Araqchi says the Islamic Republic will continue to support the peace process and the promotion of democracy in Afghanistan.
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Five soldiers killed in Taliban bomb attack on army outpost
Jan 02, 2019 13:32Five Afghan soldiers have been killed in a bomb explosion carried out by Taliban militants in a tunnel below an army outpost in southern Afghanistan.
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Taliban attacks kill 23 police officers in northern Afghanistan
Jan 01, 2019 09:52Taliban militants kill at least 23 police officers, as armed group storms security posts in Northern Sar-e-Pul Province.
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Trump comes clean... from world’s policeman to thug running a global protection racket
Dec 31, 2018 13:35President Trump’s big announcement to pull US troops out of Syria and Afghanistan is now emerging less as a peace move, and more a rationalization of American military power in the Middle East. In a surprise visit to US forces in Iraq this week, Trump said he had no intention of withdrawing the troops in that country, who have been there for nearly 15 years since GW Bush invaded back in 2003.
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Iran confirms hosting Taliban delegation for peace talks
Dec 31, 2018 12:55Iran says it has hosted a delegation from Taliban to discuss possible ways to end hostilities in Afghanistan.
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Taliban rejects Afghan government’s offer of peace talks
Dec 30, 2018 09:01The Taliban militant group has rejected a call by the Afghan government for formal peace talks next month in Saudi Arabia.
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German troops may leave Afghanistan if US forces withdraw: Report
Dec 29, 2018 03:43Former German Defense Chief General Harald Kujat has warned that a probable American military withdrawal from Afghanistan may jeopardize German troops and force them to leave.
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Taliban to US: Leave Afghanistan or face Soviet-style defeat
Dec 27, 2018 13:49The Taliban militant group has warned the United States it would face the same fate as the Soviet Union in the 1980s if it did not leave violence-wracked Afghanistan.
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Iran eyes close military ties with Afghanistan
Dec 27, 2018 03:25Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani expressed the country’s readiness to enhance military and defense cooperation with Afghanistan.