Taliban peace talks: Finally, a breakthrough?

After more than a decade of war, the Afghan insurgent group says it's ready for negotiations

Taliban militants
(Image credit: Tahir Safi/Xinhua Press/Corbis)

After twelve years of war, is Afghanistan finally on the road to peace?

Hope sprung anew on Tuesday, with Taliban leaders announcing that they are willing to enter direct peace negotiations with the Afghan government led by President Hamid Karzai. If the talks take place, they'll be the first tete-a-tete discussions between the two sides since a U.S.-led force ousted the Taliban from power in 2001.

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Harold Maass, The Week US

Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.