Politics
Russia Challenges U.S. in Hosting Taliban at Afghan Talks
- Kabul reverses boycott, sends lower-level delegation to Moscow
- Taliban rules out direct talks before U.S. troop pullout
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Russia challenged the U.S. by hosting the Taliban at a Moscow peace conference in the latest source of friction between the two former Cold War foes.
Representatives from the Afghan militant group joined the talks on Friday to which Russia’s invited a dozen countries. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, who pressed Russia to cancel a similar meeting in September, sent four senior members of his nation’s High Peace Council.