The gunmen abandoned the peace talks.
The new leader of the radical movement “Taliban”, Molavi Heybatulla Akhunzada said about the rejection of peace talks with the Afghan authorities.
A Taliban spokesman has officially confirmed the information that the Taliban leader Akhtar Mansur was indeed dead as a result of U.S. drone strike.
Over the past few months, the situation in Afghanistan has deteriorated significantly, Reuters reported.
The Taliban first seized vast territory in rural areas, launched an attack on a major city. The country has also increased the influence of radical group “Islamic state”.
Authorities in Kabul offered to sit at the negotiating table representatives of the Taliban. The talks were scheduled for early March, but then the Taliban refused them.