March 2, 2020

Taliban and U.S. Strike Deal to Withdraw American Troops From Afghanistan





The chief American envoy, Zalmay Khalilzad, and Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, a Taliban leader, in Doha, Qatar, on Saturday.


After more than a year of talks, the agreement lays out the beginning of the end of the United States’ longest war. But many obstacles remain.




After 18 Years, Is This Afghan Peace, or Just a Way Out?

Afghanistan has gone from being the “good war” that the United States must win to the longstanding burden that, like the British, the Soviets and a series of others, it now seeks to unload.