Afghanistan’s Historic Year: Peace Talks, Security Transition but Higher Levels of Violence

BONN, Germany, Dec 18 (IPS) – While Afghanistan ends a historic year, filled with the hope for peace as the government and Taliban sat down for almost three months of consecutive peace talks for the first time in 19 years, it was also a year filled with violence with provisional statistics by the United Nations showing casualties for this year being higher than 2019.

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