{"id":28293,"date":"2018-02-14T14:43:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T13:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/02\/14\/taliban-publish-letter-calling-on-us-to-start-afghan-peace-talks\/"},"modified":"2018-02-14T14:43:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T13:43:38","slug":"taliban-publish-letter-calling-on-us-to-start-afghan-peace-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=28293","title":{"rendered":"Taliban publish letter calling on US to start Afghan peace talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018American people\u2019 and \u2018peace-loving congressmen\u2019 urged to press Trump into negotiatingIn an unexpected overture at a time of spiralling bloodshed in Afghanistan, the Taliban have published an open letter expressing a desire for peace talks and calling on the \u201cAmerican people\u201d and \u201cpeace-loving congressmen\u201d to pressurise the Donald Trump administration into negotiations. The letter, released by the Taliban spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, comes amid deteriorating conditions for US and Afghan coalition forces on the battlefield and after a month in which two major Taliban assaults on Kabul killed 150 civilians. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/feb\/14\/taliban-publish-letter-calling-us-start-afghan-peace-talks\" target=\"_blank\">Taliban publish letter calling on US to start Afghan peace talks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018American people\u2019 and \u2018peace-loving congressmen\u2019 urged to press Trump into negotiatingIn an unexpected overture at a time of spiralling bloodshed in Afghanistan, the Taliban have published an open letter expressing a desire for peace talks and calling on the \u201cAmerican people\u201d and \u201cpeace-loving congressmen\u201d to pressurise the Donald Trump administration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}