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As New U.S. Envoy Appointed, Turbulent Afghanistan’s Hopes of Peace Persist
The new U.S. adviser on Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, has a tough assignment: fostering peace between the Afghan government and the Taliban.
Crisis Group’s Borhan Osman says that recent violence has soured the public mood, but that leaders on all sides still appear committed – at least rhetorically – to peace talks.
On 4 September 2018, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad would join the State Department as an adviser on Afghanistan.
Khalilzad will, in the Secretary of State’s words, “assist in the reconciliation effort”; his…