{"id":4612,"date":"2018-12-17T20:05:14","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T20:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4612"},"modified":"2018-12-17T20:05:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T20:05:50","slug":"taliban-are-meeting-us-officials-in-effort-to-negotiate-the-end-of-the-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/12\/17\/taliban-are-meeting-us-officials-in-effort-to-negotiate-the-end-of-the-war\/","title":{"rendered":"TALIBAN ARE MEETING US OFFICIALS IN EFFORT TO NEGOTIATE THE END OF THE WAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/TALIBAN.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4613\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/TALIBAN-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/TALIBAN-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/TALIBAN-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/TALIBAN-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/TALIBAN-560x315.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/TALIBAN-260x146.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/TALIBAN-160x90.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/TALIBAN.jpg 1597w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Military Times<\/p>\n<p>By: Kathy Gannon, The Associated Press<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban say they are holding \u201canother\u201d meeting on Monday with U.S. officials, this time in the United Arab Emirates and also involving Saudi, Pakistani and Emirati representatives in the latest attempt to bring a negotiated end to Afghanistan\u2019s 17-year war.<\/p>\n<p>Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid offered no further details.<\/p>\n<p>Khalil Minawi, director of Afghanistan\u2019s state-run Bakhtar news agency, also confirmed the meeting. He said on Twitter that officials from the United States, Afghanistan, Pakistan and the UAE held meetings Sunday ahead of \u201cthe Pakistani-sponsored U.S.-Taliban meeting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Afghan officials are not expected to attend Monday\u2019s meeting, their presence in the UAE is a significant step in efforts to get the two sides talking. So far, the Taliban have refused to hold direct talks with the Afghan government, calling it a puppet of America and insisting only on negotiating with the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Image sourced: VOA<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2018\/12\/17\/taliban-say-theyre-meeting-us-officials-in-effort-to-negotiate-end-of-war\/?utm_campaign=Socialflow+MIL&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Military Times By: Kathy Gannon, The Associated Press The Taliban say they are holding \u201canother\u201d meeting on Monday with U.S. officials, this time in the United Arab Emirates and also involving Saudi, Pakistani and Emirati representatives in the latest attempt to bring a negotiated end to Afghanistan\u2019s 17-year war. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid offered&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/12\/17\/taliban-are-meeting-us-officials-in-effort-to-negotiate-the-end-of-the-war\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TALIBAN ARE MEETING US OFFICIALS IN EFFORT TO NEGOTIATE THE END OF THE WAR<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4612"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4615,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4612\/revisions\/4615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}