Trump Cancels Afghan Peace Talks After Taliban Admits to Kabul Attack

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media as he meets with President of Romania Klaus Iohannis in the Oval Office of the White House on Aug. 20, 2019. Alex Wong/Getty Images

President Donald Trump announced that he’s canceling U.S.–Afghan peace negotiations after learning that the Taliban launched a terror attack in Kabul thinking it would “strengthen their bargaining position.”

“I immediately cancelled the meeting and called off peace negotiations,” Trump wrote on Twitter on Sept. 7.