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Who signed the Doha agreement?
Doha Agreement (2020)
| Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan | |
|---|---|
| Context | War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) |
| Signed | 29 February 2020 |
| Location | Sheraton Grand Doha, Doha, Qatar |
| Signatories | Zalmay Khalilzad Abdul Ghani Baradar |
How was the Taliban funded?
Saudi-based charities, such as the International Islamic Relief Organization, gave funding to the Taliban during its rise. The Saudi Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice supported its new Afghan equivalent.
Is Trump’s abrupt end to US-Taliban talks a negotiating tactic?
Pompeo said Washington is still interested in agreeing to a deal, while the Taliban said it was hopeful negotiations could resume. Analysts said Trump’s abrupt end to talks could be a negotiating tactic to get more concessions from the Taliban.
Why isn’t the US-Taliban peace deal being treated as big news?
© Hussein Sayed/AP U.S. peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, left, and Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban group’s top political leader, shake hands in February 2020 as a peace deal is signed. (Hussein Sayed/AP) But when the deal was cut in Doha, Qatar, in February 2020, it wasn’t treated as huge news, because the war itself wasn’t big news.
What scuppered the US-Taliban meeting?
What apparently scuppered the meeting was the Taliban’s admission that it was behind a suicide bombing Thursday near the US embassy in Kabul that killed a US soldier and 11 others.
How long did it take to reach a deal with the Taliban?
So Trump took a swing at something his predecessors hadn’t: a full-bore effort to strike a deal with the Taliban. It took nine rounds of talks over 18 months. At one point, Trump secretly invited the Taliban to the presidential retreat at Camp David on the eve of the 9/11 anniversary.