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Pentagon: US in talks with Taliban to ease Kabul obstacles

by Ellen KnickmeyerZeke Miller
| August 18, 2021 9:03 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior U.S. military officers at the Kabul airport are talking to Taliban commanders in the capital about Taliban checkpoints and curfews that have limited the number of Americans and Afghans able to enter the airport, the Pentagon said Wednesday.

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