The November 9 event, dubbed the Moscow Format Consultations on Afghanistan, met with strong skepticism from former officials and politicians in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is sending a delegation to attend international peace talks in Russia this month, and so is the Afghan Taliban, officials said on November 6.
As Washington attempts to negotiate peace with the Taliban to bring 17 years of war in Afghanistan to a close, the militant group has ramped up its military campaign by targeting powerful provincial opponents.
An Afghan official says that Afghan authorities “have not yet” decided about sending a delegation to international talks Russia hosts next week on the Afghan peace process.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has vowed to try to extend a hand of peace to archrival India following elections in the neighboring country, after a similar offer was "rebuffed."
The U.S. envoy on an Afghanistan peace initiative has met with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah in Kabul, a day after he held talks in Qatar with Taliban leaders.
Marvin Weinbaum, a specialist at Washington’s Middle East Institute think tank, weighs in on the current state of relations between Pakistan and the United States. The erstwhile allies are now trying to convince each other of their interests, which often clash over Afghanistan.
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis arrived in Kabul for a surprise visit on September 7 to meet with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and the new commander of NATO troops in Afghanistan and discuss progress on talks with the Taliban.
A year after President Donald Trump announced his strategy for Afghanistan, the war there is at a virtual stalemate, and Pakistan holds the key to whether the Taliban insurgents it has sheltered and supported for decades join the peace process or continue to fight for their avowed aim of forcing the United States to withdraw its troops.
The United States and Afghanistan both say they will not attend Russia-hosted peace talks scheduled for next month, with Kabul asserting it prefers instead to hold direct talks with the Taliban.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is expected to appoint Zalmay Khalilzad, an Afghan-born former U.S. ambassador to Kabul, as his special envoy on Afghanistan, media reported on August 22.
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