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Russia Hosts Taliban in Peace Conference

09/11/2018 GMT

BBC World Service - World Update, Russia Hosts Taliban in Peace Conference

It is almost 40 years since Soviet troops went to war in Afghanistan

It is almost 40 years since Soviet troops went to war in Afghanistan.

Russia is hosting Taliban officials at an international peace conference in Moscow. It is the first time the militants have joined an event of this sort, which involves a number of countries trying to work out mutually acceptable solutions to the continuing violent unrest in Afghanistan.

Also in the programme: Commemorating World War Two atrocities; a warming of relations between Israel and the Gulf States?

(Picture: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and member of Taliban delegation Alhaj Mohammad Sohail Shaina. Credit: REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin)

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