President Donald Trump has announced the United States had resumed talks with Taliban insurgents as he made a surprise trip to Afghanistan to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday with troops
President Donald Trump has announced the United States had resumed talks with Taliban insurgents as he made a surprise trip toOn a brief visit to Bagram Airfield outside the capital Kabul, Mr Trump served turkey dinner to soldiers, posed for photographs and delivered a speech after meeting Afghan President Ashraf Ghani.
President Donald Trump walks on stage during to address members of the military during a surprise Thanksgiving Day visit."There's nowhere I'd rather celebrate this Thanksgiving than right here with the toughest, strongest, best and bravest warriors on the face of the earth," the president, who was making his first trip to the war-torn country, told the troops."I've just come from serving Thanksgiving dinner to some of you... and we had a good time.
But Mr Trump made a shock move in September, describing the year-long talks as"dead" and withdrawing an invitation to the insurgents to meet in the United States due to the killing of an American soldier."We were getting close and we pulled back. We didn't want to do it because of what they did," he later said during a meeting with Ghani, referring to the death of the soldier.
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