Beginning midnight Friday Kabul time, the Taliban and the US will begin a seven-day reduction of violence in Afghanistan. This interim agreement comes after 18 months of intense negotiations and if successful, will lead to a more comprehensive agreement that could end the roughly two decades of war. The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports.
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