US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the talks a "truly momentous" breakthrough, while the head of Afghanistan's peace council called it an "exceptional opportunity for peace".
The Taliban did not mention a truce, reiterating instead that Afghanistan should be under Islamic law.
These talks follow a US-Taliban security deal reached in February.
Afghanistan has seen four decades of conflict, with tens of thousands of civilians killed...
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At least five police officers were killed when the Taliban attacked the Shinwari checkpoint outside the city of Kunduz in Afghanistan, Hijratullah Akbari, a spokesman for the Kunduz police chief, said...
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At the same time, one policeman was killed and three others were injured when a car bomb exploded at a security checkpoint in the Maiwand District in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar Province, a security source told Sputnik.