As US and Taliban plan to sign accord, Afghanistan must prepare for peace
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February 28, 2020
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(THE CONVERSATION) After a week-long truce signed Feb. 22 between the United States and the Taliban appears to have held, a peace deal may finally end Afghanistan's decades-long conflict.
The accord, slated for signing on Feb. 29, follows 18 months of stop-and-gonegotiations between the U.S. and the Taliban, an armed insurgency promoting an ultra-conservative form of Sunni Islam.
The Taliban has battled the Afghan government for power for three decades. Since the U.S. invasio...
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