Taliban agrees to a temporary ceasefire in Afghanistan, providing a window in which a peace agreement with the US can be signed
An Afghan National Army soldier stands guard at a checkpoint on September 24, 2019 ahead of presidential elections scheduled for September 28, in Kabul, Afghanistan.
The negotiating team returned Sunday to Qatar where the Taliban maintain their political office and where US special peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad has been holding peace talks with the militia since September, 2018.However, a surge in violence in the capital Kabul killed a US soldier, prompting President Donald Trump to declare the deal “dead.
Those intra-Afghan talks were expected to be held within two weeks of the signing of a US-Taliban peace deal. They will decide what a post-war Afghanistan will look like. The intra-Afghan talks would also lay out the fate of tens of thousands of Taliban fighters and the heavily armed militias belonging to Afghanistan's warlords. Those warlords have amassed wealth and power since the Taliban were ousted from power in 2001 by the US-led coalition. They were removed after Osama bin Laden's al Qaida carried out the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States.
Local Afghan militias commonly operate in remote areas, and are under the command of either the defence or interior ministries.Last week, a US soldier was killed in combat in the northern Kunduz province.
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