{"id":8326,"date":"2019-09-01T13:19:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T04:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/01\/us-and-taliban-close-to-deal-to-stop-fighting-and-allow-peace-talks-us-official-says"},"modified":"2019-09-01T15:59:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T06:59:49","slug":"us-and-taliban-close-to-deal-to-allow-peace-talks-trump-envoy-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8326","title":{"rendered":"US and Taliban close to deal to  allow peace talks, Trump envoy says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zalmay Khalilzad, the US envoy for peace in Afghanistan, says agreement would reduce violence and allow \u2018intra-Afghan\u2019 talks<\/p>\n<p>US and Taliban negotiators are close to an agreement that would reduce fighting and allow full peace talks among Afghans, a top US official said on Sunday, a day after insurgent forces stormed the strategic northern city of Kunduz.<\/p>\n<p>But only hours after Zalmay Khalilzad, the Afghan-born US diplomat overseeing negotiations for Washington, spoke the Taliban attacked a second Afghan city, Puli Khumri, the capital of Baghlan province, an official said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/01\/us-and-taliban-close-to-deal-to-stop-fighting-and-allow-peace-talks-us-official-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zalmay Khalilzad, the US envoy for peace in Afghanistan, says agreement would reduce violence and allow \u2018intra-Afghan\u2019 talksUS and Taliban negotiators are close to an agreement that would reduce fighting and allow full peace talks among Afghans, a top &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[46,487,471,61,44,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-al-qaida","category-islamic-state","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","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\/8326","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8349,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8326\/revisions\/8349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}