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If the United States does not pull out all of its military forces including its intelligence from Afghanistan, the Afghan peace talks will ruin, says the Taliban’s political office in Qatar. “Our policy is clear about ending Afghanistan’s occupation and if it is not accepted, the war will continue,” said …

The current “political conditions” in Afghanistan do not merit a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, despite President Donald Trump’s goal of a drawdown,  the U.S. Army General Joseph Votel, head of the U.S. Central Command, has said. “The political conditions, where we are in the reconciliation right now, don’t merit that,” …