Evening Edition: Biden Administration Resumes Talks With Taliban

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🗓️ 2 March 2021

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The State Department has announced negotiations with the Taliban and the Afghan government will resume in Qatar. The Biden administration looks to be reviewing a deal made by the Trump administration while the Taliban has warned any change to a promised May 1st exit deal would 'doom' talks. FOX’s Trey Yingst speaks with Scott Worden, the Director of the Afghanistan and Central Asia programs at the US Institute of Peace, about the peace negotiations and the difficult balancing act of keeping Afghanistan stable and out of a civil war. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:19.4	Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021. I'm Trey Inst. The Biden administration is resuming peace talks with the
0:29.3	Taliban amid an uncertain future for U.S. presence in Afghanistan.
0:34.0	We need a political solution to the conflict that will provide stability so that if U.S. forces
0:39.3	leave, then there will not be a civil war, an increase of safe havens for terrorists and so forth.
0:46.2	This is the Fox News rundown, evening addition. The State Department announced Sunday that a special representative will travel
0:57.5	to Qatar and Afghanistan to resume peace talks with the Taliban and Afghan government
1:02.4	that started under President Trump.
1:04.5	Continuing violence and an unclear set of standards for moving forward negotiations
1:09.3	has made it difficult to see any lasting progress.
1:12.4	This comes as a May 1st deadline for U.S. troop
1:14.8	withdrawal is quickly approaching. Well right now we have more or less
1:19.8	stalled negotiations between the Taliban and the Afghan government as well as other political
1:26.0	representatives.
1:27.1	For more on this topic, this is Scott Worden, the director of the Afghanistan and Central Asia
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