{"id":14817,"date":"2020-02-21T23:11:40","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T14:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/21\/mike-pompeo-us-reached-understanding-taliban-violence-afghanistan-peace"},"modified":"2020-02-21T23:11:40","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T14:11:40","slug":"us-and-taliban-to-sign-deal-paving-way-for-troop-pullout-and-peace-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14817","title":{"rendered":"US and Taliban to sign deal paving way for troop pullout and peace talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A seven-day \u2018reduction of violence\u2019 deal will begin on Friday night, Mike Pompeo said, leading to signing of a peace agreement<\/p>\n<p>The US and Taliban are due to sign an agreement on 29 February that will lead to the withdrawal of thousands of US troops and the start of comprehensive peace talks between the Afghan government and the insurgents.<\/p>\n<p>The US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, announced that the agreement would be signed once there has been a week-long \u201cnationwide reduction in violence\u201d, to start at midnight on Friday, according to an understanding reached by US and Taliban negotiators meeting in Doha.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/21\/mike-pompeo-us-reached-understanding-taliban-violence-afghanistan-peace\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A seven-day \u2018reduction of violence\u2019 deal will begin on Friday night, Mike Pompeo said, leading to signing of a peace agreementThe US and Taliban are due to sign an agreement on 29 February that will lead to the withdrawal of thousands of US troops and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,472,44,473,758,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-mike-pompeo","category-taliban","category-us-military","category-us-national-security","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14818,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14817\/revisions\/14818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}