{"id":33215,"date":"2019-02-25T22:22:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T22:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33215"},"modified":"2019-02-25T22:22:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T22:22:22","slug":"is-peace-finally-possible-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33215","title":{"rendered":"Is peace finally possible in Afghanistan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"82\">\n<p>The Afghan Taliban&#8217;s co-founder is in talks with the United States in an attempt to bring an end to more than 17 years of war.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the United States&#8217; longest war and last year there was a record death toll in Afghanistan. Almost 4,000 civilians were killed and 7,000 wounded.<\/p>\n<p>The UN is blaming the Taliban and ISIL for deliberately targeting civilians with suicide attacks. But Afghan and US forces have also stepped up their assaults on armed groups.<\/p>\n<p>Now attempts to end the bloodshed are gathering pace.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban and the US are in talks in Qatar. Co-founder of the Afghan Taliban, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, has met the US special envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>So could there be a breakthrough?<\/p>\n<p>Presenter: Laura Kyle<\/p>\n<p>Guests:<\/p>\n<p>Mushtaq Rahim &#8211;\u00a0 analyst at Conflict, Peace and Security\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Michael Semple &#8211; researcher and former deputy EU special representative to Afghanistan<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Neal &#8211; advocacy manager at the Norwegian Refugee Council in Afghanistan<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Afghan Taliban&#8217;s co-founder is in talks with the United States in an attempt to bring an end to more than 17 years of war. It&#8217;s the United States&#8217; longest war and last year there was a record death toll in Afghanistan. Almost 4,000 civilians were killed and 7,000 wounded. The UN is blaming the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":33216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33215","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\/33215","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=33215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}