Taliban Leaders Held At Guantánamo Bay To Be Released In Peace Talks Deal -- The Guardian
US agrees in principle to releasing top officials from Afghanistan insurgent group in exchange for starting process of negotiations.
The US has agreed in principle to release high-ranking Taliban officials from Guantánamo Bay in return for the Afghan insurgents' agreement to open a political office for peace negotiations in Qatar, the Guardian has learned.
According to sources familiar with the talks in the US and in Afghanistan, the handful of Taliban figures will include Mullah Khair Khowa, a former interior minister, and Noorullah Noori, a former governor in northern Afghanistan.
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My Comment: I understand the need to start talks .... at least with some of the Taliban groups and factions. But this will not stop the war .... probably not. The Taliban are themselves divided, with different factions at each others throats both in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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