US peace envoy pushes to isolate Taliban should they take power by force

Published August 10, 2021 2:21pm ET



The United States is formulating a plan to isolate the Taliban internationally should they take control of Afghanistan.

On Sunday, U.S. peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad traveled to Doha, Qatar, where the Taliban maintain a political office, for “several planned rounds of meeting” to “help formulate a joint international response to the rapidly deteriorating situation in Afghanistan,” the State Department said.

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