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Trump calls off peace talks with Taliban leaders after Kabul attack

The US has insisted that no deal would be final until the Taliban reached an accord with Ghani, direct talks that the Taliban long refused to undertake

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Jennifer Jacobs and Nick Wadhams | Bloomberg

4 min read Last Updated : Dec 10 2019 | 2:08 PM IST

President Donald Trump said Saturday that he canceled a secret meeting with major Taliban leaders and the president of Afghanistan, set for Sunday at Camp David, and discontinued peace negotiations after a US soldier was killed.

The sudden demise of the talks may doom direct US negotiations with the Taliban that held out the prospect of ending 18 years of combat in Afghanistan, making it America’s longest-running war. The planned meeting revealed by Trump on Saturday had been a closely held secret.

The president had grown frustrated with the peace negotiations that his national security adviser, John Bolton, thought were

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