Trump Visits Afghanistan and Says He Reopened Talks With Taliban

Posted on AllSides November 29th, 2019
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BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — President Trump paid an unannounced Thanksgiving visit to American troops in Afghanistan on Thursday and declared that he had reopened peace negotiations with the Taliban less than three months after scuttling talks in hopes of ending 18 years of war.

“The Taliban wants to make a deal, and we’re meeting with them,” Mr. Trump said during a meeting with Afghanistan’s president, Ashraf Ghani, at the main base for American forces north of Kabul.

“We’re going to stay until such time as we have a deal,...

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/28/us/politics/trump-afghanistan.html

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