{"id":30168,"date":"2019-01-22T20:22:14","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T20:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30168"},"modified":"2019-01-22T20:22:14","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T20:22:14","slug":"are-the-taliban-using-an-attack-and-talk-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30168","title":{"rendered":"Are the Taliban using an &#8216;attack and talk&#8217; strategy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"75.5512048193\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/afghanistan.html\">Afghanistan<\/a> has been at war for much of the past 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>In 2001, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/united-states.html\">United States<\/a> sent its troops into the country in response to the 9\/11 attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The withdrawal of these troops has been one of the sticking points in talks between US and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/organisations\/taliban.html\">Taliban<\/a> representatives that are getting under way in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>But hours before those talks began in the capital Doha, Taliban fighters launched one of their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/01\/taliban-kill-12-attack-afghan-military-base-190121061133642.html\">most daring attacks in recent months<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A gun and bomb raid on an Afghan intelligence and military base southwest of Kabul killed dozens of security personnel.<\/p>\n<p>Many are now looking to see if the timing of the attack\u00a0 &#8211; coming on the eve of those talks &#8211; could have an impact on negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Richelle Carey<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Omar Zakhilwal &#8211;\u00a0 Former president&#8217;s special representative and Afghan ambassador to Pakistan<\/p>\n<p>Imtiaz Gul &#8211; Head of the Center for Research &#038; Security Studies<\/p>\n<p>David Sedney &#8211; Former deputy US assistant secretary of defense for Afghanistan and Pakistan<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan has been at war for much of the past 40 years. In 2001, the United States sent its troops into the country in response to the 9\/11 attacks. The withdrawal of these troops has been one of the sticking points in talks between US and Taliban representatives that are getting under way in Qatar.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}