CIA Director Gina Haspel visited Afghanistan this week to discuss a number of issues including maintaining and possibly expanding the US intelligence presence in the country, sources say
Haspel's visit comes as the Trump administration remains actively engaged in peace talks with the Taliban and just days after three US service members were killed by an improvised explosive device near Bagram Air Base. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. Seven US service members have been killed in Afghanistan this year.
"Any settlement just simply won't be sustainable unless the Taliban agrees to sit down with other Afghans and work out a political settlement." Khalilzad also spent a few days in Kabul earlier this month. He met with current Afghan government officials like Ghani and former officials like President Hamid Karzai. It is possible that the US, the Taliban and Afghan officials sat down at the table together for the first time this month, according to sources familiar with the planning.
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