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Washington: The Taliban signed a peace accord with US negotiators in Doha, Qatar, but the US has stated that it no longer believes the Taliban can carry out their promises.
Al Qaeda chief Ayman al Zawahiri’s presence in Kabul, according to State Department spokesman Ned Price, “reinforces the idea that the Taliban heretofore has not been willing or able to comply with the commitments it’s made to its own people,” Price said during a Tuesday afternoon news conference in Washington.
The 2001–2021 conflict in Afghanistan came to an end in February 2020 when the United States and the Taliban signed a peace deal in Doha, Qatar. In the end, the deal resulted in the US military being pulled out of Afghanistan on August 15, 2021.
Mr. Price stated, “Of course, that has featured into our thinking. Senior members of the Haqqani Taliban Network were wiping off Ayman al Zawahiri’s presence in Kabul and actively sheltered him.” We’re still thinking through the consequences of that.
A reporter for the State Department noted that US Special Representative for Afghanistan Tom West had visited a Taliban delegation in Tashkent on July 27.
However, the US was aware at that point that Zawahiri was living in Kabul and was protected by the Taliban.
According to Mr. Price, that was the final time the US and the Taliban met in person.
“I think you can appreciate the secrecy that the US administration maintained around those upcoming plans. Naturally, we didn’t discuss it with the Taliban beforehand,” Mr. Price stated.
