{"id":89990,"date":"2019-02-06T03:59:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T03:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/holding-constructive-talks-with-a-number-of-afghan-groups-including-the-taliban\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T13:01:27","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T13:01:27","slug":"holding-constructive-talks-with-a-number-of-afghan-groups-including-the-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/holding-constructive-talks-with-a-number-of-afghan-groups-including-the-taliban\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Holding constructive talks with a number of Afghan groups, including the Taliban\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2019\/February\/06\/\u062a\u0631\u0627\u0645\u067e.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>MONITORING (SW) &ndash; U.S President Donald&nbsp;Trump&nbsp;said in his 2019&nbsp;State of the Union&nbsp;address on Tuesday that Washington is holding constructive talks with a number of Afghan groups, including the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>He said American troops have now been fighting in the Middle East for almost 19 years. &quot;In Afghanistan and Iraq, nearly 7,000 American heroes have given their lives. More than 52,000 Americans have been badly wounded. We have spent more than $7 trillion in the Middle East&quot;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added talks have also accelerated the negotiations to reach a political settlement in Afghanistan. &quot;Our troops have fought with unmatched valor &#8212; and thanks to their bravery, we are now able to pursue a political solution to this long and bloody conflict&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>He said Washington is holding constructive talks with a number of Afghan groups, including the Taliban. &quot;As we make progress in these negotiations, we will be able to reduce our troop presence and focus on counter-terrorism. We do not know whether we will achieve an agreement &#8212; but we do know that after two decades of war, the hour has come to at least try for peace&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) \u2013 U.S President Donald Trump said in his 2019 State of the Union address on Tuesday that Washington is holding constructive talks with a number of Afghan groups, including the Taliban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-89990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}