The United States is seeking a peace agreement and not an agreement to withdraw its troops from war-ravaged Afghanistan, the Trump Administration has said. "My overall goal is, at the direction of the president of the secretary of state, not to seek out withdrawal agreement, but the peace agreement. Because peace agreement can allow withdrawal. It is not just the withdrawal agreement that we are seeking," Khalilzad said. "It will be better for Afghanistan if we could get a peace agreement before the election, which is scheduled in July," he said.

Source: dna February 09, 2019 01:18 UTC