Biden taps new Afghan relocation leader as U.S. weighs future with Taliban
The State Department on Tuesday tapped expert diplomat Elizabeth Jones as the new fellow for Afghan relocation sweats, days after aU.S. delegation met face-to- face with representatives from the Taliban in Doha for the first time since the zealots seized power in August.
President Joe Biden, meanwhile, met with other leaders of the Group of 20 nations to bandy ways to help the Afghan people without validating the harsh rule of the Islamist Taliban. The developments as a whole were a memorial that although the lastU.S. colors left Afghanistan onAug. 31 after 20 times of war, America’s trap with the country is far from over.
Bones, who served as the minister to Kazakhstan and as deputy special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, will now be responsible for easing the departures of A...