Uzbek Official Confirms Taliban Talks

Uzbek Official Confirms Taliban Talks
Afghan security forces patrol the town of Farah, after having driven the Taliban out, on May 19, 2018. HAMEED KHAN/AFP/Getty Images
Christopher C. Hull
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Uzbekistan’s ambassador to the United States, Javlon Vakhabov, confirmed his government “had very substantive talks” with a Taliban delegation visiting his nation last August, reportedly to discuss the Afghanistan peace process and withdrawal of foreign forces.

The Taliban, a fundamentalist Islamic dictatorship, held control of Afghanistan for the five years leading up to the al-Qaida attack against the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, until a U.S.-led coalition ousted them from power in response, and has battled them ever since.

Christopher C. Hull
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Christopher C. Hull, Ph.D., is a public affairs executive with extensive real-world expertise running successful local, state, federal, and international policy-shaping and coalition-building issue campaigns, as well as academic-level training in presidential and grassroots politics.
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