The Almost-Peace Deal

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 6 March 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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After years of false starts, the United States has signed a landmark deal with the Taliban to end the war in Afghanistan. We traveled to the front lines of the war — and to the signing ceremony in Doha, Qatar — to investigate whether peace is actually possible. Guest: Mujib Mashal, senior correspondent for The New York Times in Afghanistan. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Background reading: The agreement between Washington and the Taliban seemed to be an important first step in ending the war in Afghanistan. Then the violence started again.Zalmay Khalilzad, the Afghan-born American envoy and architect of the deal, seemed to have been handed an impossible and thankless assignment. Here’s how he pulled it off.

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0:26.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Babaro.
0:32.7	This is the Daily.
0:38.5	Today, after years of false starts, the United States has signed a historic peace deal with
0:46.8	the Taliban to end the war in Afghanistan.
0:51.5	My colleague, Mujib Mashal, traveled to the front lines in Afghanistan and the signing ceremony
0:58.4	in Doha to find out whether peace is actually possible.
1:10.3	It's Friday, March 6th.
1:17.8	Mujib, what was the situation heading into this peace deal?
1:22.0	This conflict has gone on for about 40 years.
1:25.8	It kind of began with the Soviet invasion in the 70s and it dragged on.
1:30.1	It became a civil war.
1:32.0	And the chaos of the civil war became a safe haven for terrorist groups like Al-Qaeda
1:38.7	that use it as launching grounds to attack the United States.
1:42.9	And in retaliation, the United States invaded Afghanistan.
1:46.8	And they toppled the Taliban government that was hosting Al-Qaeda.
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