The Almost-Peace Deal

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After years of false starts, the United States has signed a landmark deal with the Taliban to end the war in Afghanistan. We traveled to the front lines of the war — and to the signing ceremony in Doha, Qatar — to investigate whether peace is actually possible.

Guest: Mujib Mashal (https://www.nytimes.com/by/mujib-mashal?smid=pc-thedaily), senior correspondent for The New York Times in Afghanistan.

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Background reading:


The agreement between Washington and the Taliban (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/29/world/asia/us-taliban-afghanistan.html?smid=pc-thedaily) seemed to be an important first step in ending the war in Afghanistan. Then the violence started again (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/world/asia/afghanistan-taliban-violence.html?smid=pc-thedaily).
Zalmay Khalilzad, the Afghan-born American envoy and architect of the deal, seemed to have been handed an impossible and thankless assignment. Here’s how he pulled it off (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/01/world/asia/zalmay-khalilzad-afghanistan-taliban.html?smid=pc-thedaily).


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