Biden Administration Prepares To Resume Taliban Peace Talks

The US Department of State did not provide a date for Zalmay Khalilzad's visit to Afghanistan and Qatar [File: Sorin Furcoi/Al Jazeera] 

Daily Beast: Team Biden About to Start Its First Talks With the Taliban 

President Biden’s Afghanistan negotiator has begun a diplomatic trip that will include the first meeting of the new administration with the Taliban, sources familiar confirmed to The Daily Beast. 

The State Department did not immediately provide comment on the agenda Zalmay Khalilzad is bringing to the Taliban, which belatedly resumed peace talks with the U.S. client Afghan government last week. 

Khalilzad will first travel to Kabul for meetings with an Afghanistan government whose viability in a post-American Afghanistan is an open question. 

He’ll also visit other crucial regional capitals. 

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Update #1: Biden administration resumes Taliban peace talks (CNN) 

Update #2: US Envoy in Kabul as Questions Over Afghanistan Troop Withdrawal Swirl (AFP) 

WNU Editor: I am skeptical that these talks are going to get anywhere. It appears that the Taliban are only focused on when US and coalition forces leave .... US envoy to visit Kabul, Doha as Taliban calls for troops pullout (Al Jazeera).