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News Alert Sept. 12, 2:15 a.m. EDT Taliban and Afghan government launch formal peace talks after nearly two decades of war The move, mandated by the U.S.-Taliban peace deal signed in February, comes after a controversial prisoner swap that had led to months of delays. Afghanistan has witnessed an uptick in violence since the signing of the U.S.-Taliban deal, and government negotiators say a cease-fire will be at the top of the agenda. Read more

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The Taliban and Afghanistan’s leaders opened historic peace talks in Qatar, aimed at shaping a power-sharing government and ending decades of war.

Saturday, September 12, 2020 2:14 AM EST

If realized, a peace deal would be the first time in generations that a new form of Afghan government was not being established at the point of a gun: The current model was ushered in by the American invasion that toppled the Taliban’s harsh Islamic regime in 2001, and each previous one back to the 1979 Soviet invasion was set off by coup, collapse or conquest.

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