The United States during talks with the Taliban in Doha, Qatar over the weekend agreed to provide humanitarian aid directly to the Afghan people, State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement. Price said an inter-agency delegation traveled to Doha to meet with senior Taliban representatives on Oct. 9 and 10, marking the first…

British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab visited the Qatari capital of Doha on Thursday to discuss the prospect of opening safe passages for foreign and Afghan nationals who wish to leave Afghanistan. The trip is part of a diplomatic mission to rally regional powers to exert pressure on the Taliban to keep its promises of bearing down…

The delegations of the Afghan government and Taliban issued a joint statement on Sunday saying that they will meet again and that they have issued instructions to expedite their peace negotiations, Qatar’s Al Jazeera TV reported. The two delegations of negotiators, who have been in Doha since Saturday, said “the two sides committed to continue…