{"id":91278,"date":"2019-08-12T03:04:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T03:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/the-u-s-and-taliban-conclude-8th-round-of-talks\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T13:16:12","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T13:16:12","slug":"the-u-s-and-taliban-conclude-8th-round-of-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/the-u-s-and-taliban-conclude-8th-round-of-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. and Taliban conclude 8th round of talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2019\/Aug\/11\/Capture.PNG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; The U.S. and Taliban concluded 8th round of talks for peace in Afghanistan in the Qatari capital, Doha on Monday.<br \/>\nWithout further details, the Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahed said both sides agreed to consult their respective leaderships for next steps. He said the negotiations were wrapped up at 02:30am (Doha time) between both negotiation teams following &#39;continuous, tedious and effective&#39; work.<br \/>\nA day earlier, the top U.S. peace negotiator expressed hope this is the last Eid where Afghanistan is at war. &#39;I know Afghans yearn for peace. We stand with them and are working hard toward a lasting &amp; honorable peace agreement and a sovereign Afghanistan which poses no threat to any other country&#39;, Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, tweeted.<br \/>\nThis round of talks began in Doha two weeks ago.<br \/>\nENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; The U.S. and Taliban concluded 8th round of talks for peace in Afghanistan in the Qatari capital, Doha on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-91278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91278","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=91278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}