Taliban, Afghan leaders make tentative progress toward peace

Former acting Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan, Afghanistan's acting Defense Minister Asadullah Khalid and Afghan National Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib.
(Image credit: MISSY RYAN/AFP/Getty Images)

Leaders from the Taliban and from a wide range of political and civic institutions in Afghanistan made progress toward a peace resolution after decades of warfare in the country on Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal reports.

About 70 representatives from the warring sides gathered for two days in Doha before agreeing — tentatively — on aspects of the country's future. The joint resolution said that post-war Afghanistan would have an Islamic legal system, equality for all ethnic groups, and the guarantee for women's rights "within the Islamic framework of Islamic values."

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.