Two Years After Surrendering Afghanistan, Biden Emerging as Open To Aiding the Taliban
American aides take a soft line in parley at Doha, while rejecting help to groups resisting Taliban rule.
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American aides take a soft line in parley at Doha, while rejecting help to groups resisting Taliban rule.
Some U.S. officials had clung to the hope that the Taliban had moderated since they last controlled the country in the 1990s.
The inaugural British coins featuring the portrait of King Charles III, alongside the final coins of Queen Elizabeth II, were auctioned on Monday.
Since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in 2021, hundreds of members of the US-backed former government have been detained, tortured, or killed under the new government, despite Taliban leaders’ declaration of amnesty for actions during the long civil war, the United Nations reported Tuesday.
The leaders of five Pacific island nations are meeting in Vanuatu to consider declaring a "region of peace and neutrality".