Donald Trump announced on Friday February 28 that his Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, will attend the signing of an agreement with the Afghan Taliban scheduled for Saturday in Doha. This peace agreement should ultimately allow the withdrawal of American soldiers still deployed in Afghanistan, almost twenty years after the intervention following the attacks of September 11, 2001.
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In a press release, the American president calls on the Taliban as well as the Afghan government to "seize this chance for peace" . If the commitments are kept, he adds, "we will have a way ahead of us to end the war in Afghanistan and bring our troops home." The United States entered into talks with the Taliban in 2018 in Qatar.
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The withdrawal from Afghanistan of the approximately 13,000 American soldiers still stationed there is a major foreign policy objective of Donald Trump, who, if he achieves it, could draw from it an additional campaign argument for his re-election in November. next.
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