The Inter-Afghan Talks: Transforming the Taliban

The transformation of the Taliban itself is as difficult a process as the search for a compromise between the outside and domestic Afghan players The past two weeks have seen developments that will determine the further course of the Afghan conflict. There was fierce fighting between Afghanistan’s armed units and the Taliban, particularly for the town of Ghazni southwest of Kabul. The approaching Eid al-Adha (Kurban Bairam) Festival spurred renewed attempts to achieve a truce, but ...