Hamid Karzai

Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he will refuse peace talks with the Taliban in a new office in Qatar unless only Afghans are involved and violence stops, after the militant group claimed responsibility for an attack that killed four American troops.On Tuesday, after months of delays, the Taliban opened an office in Doha, Qatar , where representatives from the U.S. and the Taliban will hold peace talks on Thursday, senior U.S. administration officials and a Taliban spokesman said.Karzai's High Peace Council was expected to follow up with its own talks a few days later, but it is now unclear whether or not those talks will happen.Karzai is making the moves to protest the way the U.S. is reaching out to the Taliban in efforts to find a political solution to the war.Karzai said his High Peace Council would "neither attend nor participate in the talks" until the process is "completely" in the hands of Afghans, according to a statement from his office.He changed his mind after objecting t...

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