In 2020, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani signed the Doha Agreement. It was an agreement that would hopefully bring peace to Afghanistan. Ali Latifi is a journalist born in Kabul and raised in California. He saw the signing ceremony on TV as President Ghani took the stage along with leaders of the Taliban and the US. He went back to Afghanistan, as a journalist, in 2001. Latifi tells Jenn Williams, host of “The Negotiators” podcast, how he remained skeptical of the agreement.
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