{"id":94596,"date":"2020-05-15T04:38:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T04:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/khalilzad-daesh-opposes-peace-between-afghan-govt-taliban\/"},"modified":"2020-05-15T04:38:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T04:38:36","slug":"khalilzad-daesh-opposes-peace-between-afghan-govt-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/khalilzad-daesh-opposes-peace-between-afghan-govt-taliban\/","title":{"rendered":"Khalilzad: Daesh opposes peace between Afghan govt, Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/swn.af\/pictures\/fileman\/2017_Uploads\/2020\/May\/15\/KHALILZAD.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; The top US peace envoy for Afghanistan has said Daesh opposes a peace agreement between the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the Taliban, and seeks to encourage sectarian war as in Iraq and Syria.<\/p>\n<p>In a series of tweets, Zalmay Khalilzad urged that instead of falling into the ISIS trap and delay peace or create obstacles, Afghans must come together to &#39;crush this menace and pursue a historic peace opportunity&#39;.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The USG has assessed ISIS-K conducted the horrific attacks on a maternity ward and a funeral earlier this week in Afghanistan. ISIS has demonstrated a pattern for favoring these types of heinous attacks against civilians and is a threat to the Afghan people and to the world&quot;, he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>According to the US diplomat, the ISIS-K also opposes a peace agreement between the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the Taliban, and seeks to encourage sectarian war as in Iraq and Syria.<\/p>\n<p>\nMore than 50 civilians, including babies and women, were killed in a terrorist attack on a hospital in Kabul and a funeral prayers gathering in Nangarhar on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\nENDS<\/p>\n<p><!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/share\/clipdata_200515_141011_789.sdoc--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; The top US peace envoy for Afghanistan has said Daesh opposes a peace agreement between the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the Taliban, and seeks to encourage sectarian war as in Iraq and Syria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-94596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94596","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=94596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}