Talks with US started secretly under Obama: Taliban

Doha: The US-Taliban negotiations that culminated with a peace deal signed in Doha began with former US President Barak Obama’s administration, but remained a secret, the spokesperson for Talibans political office in Doha said. The Taliban hopes to reach an agreement with the Afghan government before the total withdrawal of the international troops within 14 months, the spokesman, Suhail Shaheen told Efe news in an interview on Sunday. “It took a long time to reach a deal with the US because they started a few years back but it was away from the eye of the media so it was only in the time of the Trump...