Officials from the United States Department of State and the CIA met with Taliban representatives on Saturday.
It is the first in-person meeting between the two sides since the US killed al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri at the end of July.
According to people familiar with the matter, the meeting took place in Doha, Qatar. It included CIA Deputy Director David Cohen, the highest State Department official responsible for Afghanistan, and the Taliban intelligence chief Abdul Haq Wasiq. The report suggested that the talks focused on counterterrorism, due to the presence of Cohen and Wasiq.
