The United States has had “a pretty important breakthrough” in peace talks with the Taliban over the past couple of days, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday.
“We have made real progress over the last handful of days and the President gave us the authority to continue to have the conversations,” Pompeo told reporters but added, “We are not there yet. We hope we can get to a place where we can get a significant reduction in violence, not only on a piece of paper but demonstrated."