Taliban official says group spoke with US official

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By KATHY GANNON | AP

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Sat, 2018-07-28 (All day)

ISLAMABAD: A senior Taliban official says the insurgent group has held the first direct talks with a US official in a preliminary discussion about future plans for peace negotiations.
This week’s meeting with Alice Wells, the US’s top diplomat for South Asia, was an attempt to jump-start talks on ending Washington’s longest military engagement, a senior Taliban official told The Associated Press early Saturday.
US officials neither confirmed nor denied a meeting took place.
The Taliban have long demanded direct talks with Washington.

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