Afghan Taliban Veto Peace Meeting and Urge Conflict to Continue
- No talks unless foreign forces leave; prisoners are freed
- Afghan war has killed thousands of Afghans, American soldiers
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Afghanistan’s Taliban said it won’t attend peace talks as the militant group vowed to keep a 15-year-long conflict going until foreign forces completely leave the country.
Representatives of Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the U.S. have held meetings to build a road map of peace talks with the Taliban, the group that sheltered Osama bin Laden before the Sept. 11 attacks. Taliban members were invited by the nations to participate in peace talks with the Afghan government in Islamabad this month.