Members of Taliban delegation take their seats during the multilateral peace talks on Afghanistan in Moscow last December. "This step has been taken to strengthen and properly handle the ongoing negotiations process with the United States," the Taliban said in statement. U.S. special peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad's meeting with the Taliban representatives, which was originally due to run over two days, entered its fourth day on Thursday. He has been given the new position because the U.S. wanted senior Taliban leadership to participate in peace talks," a senior Taliban official said. He has held at least four meetings with the Taliban representatives.

Source: Egypt Today January 25, 2019 08:03 UTC