PARIS – Afghan officials are meeting with Taliban rebels and envoys from another Islamist militant group near Paris, looking beyond Afghanistan's ongoing insurgency to a future long after international forces have returned home.
French hosts say the secretive, rare meeting among rival Afghans in Chantilly — known partly for its equine training grounds — Thursday and Friday isn't expected to involve any horse-trading toward a possible peace and reconciliation deal.
About 20 Afghans from President Hamid Karzai's government, the Taliban, as well as the political opposition and the Islamist Hezb-e-Islami militant group will just try to foster a conversation after 11 years of war.
The meeting comes as France is pulling its last combat troops from Afghanistan — well ahead of NATO's withdrawal timetable..
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