Talks between the US and the Taliban seeking to end nearly 18 years of war in Afghanistan resumed in Doha on Saturday, the Taliban said. “Today the talks began,” the group’s spokesman in Doha, Suhail Shaheen, told AFP. The US, which invaded Afghanistan and toppled the Taliban in 2001, wants ...
Tokyo will not send warships to join a US-led maritime force to guard oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz to avoid a military conflict with Iran, a Japanese daily said on Friday. But Japan may send warships independently to protect Japanese ships in the world’s most important oil artery, ...
