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Taliban say talks focused on US withdrawal from Afghanistan

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Zalmay Khalilzad is not wasting any time as he seeks to forge an elusive peace deal with three days of talks with top Taliban members. (Associated Press)

Zalmay Khalilzad seeks Afghanistan Taliban peace deal

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Jan. 5, 2009 file photo, then-U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Zalmay Khalilzad, speaks to reporters at the United Nations headquarters. Taliban officials said Monday, Nov. 12, 2018 that Pakistan has released Abdul Samad Sani, a U.S.-designated terrorist who served as the Afghan Central Bank governor during the militants' rule, along with a lower-ranking commander named Salahuddin. It came as U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad launched a second tour of the region, with stops in Pakistan, Afghanistan, the United Arab Emirates as well as Qatar, where the Taliban maintain a political office. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Taliban hold talks with US envoy in Qatar

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018. Karzai said Thursday that he sees a role for the Taliban in his country after the war -- in a future, peaceful Afghanistan. Karzai also said that five Taliban leaders who were freed from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in exchange for American army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl are “good individuals, good Afghans” who should have a role in peace negotiations. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

AP Interview: Karzai welcomes Gitmo 5 into peace discussion

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

FILE - This March 2009, file photo, shows Zalmay Khalilzad, special adviser on reconciliation in Kabul, Afghanistan. Zalmay Khalilzad, Washington’s newly named point man, tasked with finding a peaceful end to Afghanistan’s 17- year war, is in Pakistan to seek the new government’s help pushing the Taliban to the table, according to a U.S. Embassy statement Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File)

US envoy on Afghan peace takes his mission to Pakistan

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 2009, file photo, Zalmay Khalilzad, special adviser on reconciliation in Kabul, Afghanistan. The U.S. selection of Khalilzad as special adviser on reconciliation in Afghanistan has raised some hackles in the region, with critics accusing him of marginalizing the country's smaller ethnic groups when he last served as a presidential envoy following the 2001 collapse of the Taliban and champions praising his tough stand on Pakistan. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

New US adviser to Afghanistan raises hackles in region

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

US appoints veteran envoy for Afghan peace effort

By MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Envoy: From Kabul to the White House, My Journey Through a Turbulent World’

By Jacob Heilbrunn

U.N. to examine charges N. Korea misused funding