{"id":91396,"date":"2019-09-01T05:26:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T05:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/u-s-taliban-conclude-ninth-round-of-talks\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T13:17:26","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T13:17:26","slug":"u-s-taliban-conclude-ninth-round-of-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/u-s-taliban-conclude-ninth-round-of-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S, Taliban conclude ninth round of talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2019\/Sep\/1\/khalilzad 1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; The U.S. and Taliban have concluded the ninth round of peace talks in Doha.<\/p>\n<p>&#39;We are at the threshold of an agreement (with the Taliban)&#39;, Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, said early Sunday morning as he left Doha for Kabul.<\/p>\n<p>&#39;We are at the threshold of an agreement that will reduce violence and open the door for Afghans to sit together to negotiate an honorable &amp; sustainable peace and a unified, sovereign Afghanistan that does not threaten the United States, its allies, or any other country&#39;, he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Khalilzad would meet and brief Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on the developments.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban&rsquo;s Qatar office spokesman, Suhail Shaheen, said in a tweet that the ninth round of talks concluded, but debate over technical details would resume today.<\/p>\n<p>This round of talks began in the Qatari capital ten days ago.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; The U.S. and Taliban have concluded the ninth round of peace talks in Doha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-91396","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\/91396","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=91396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}