Taliban Spokesman Suhail Shaheen says that a fresh round of intra-Afghan negotiations will be held in China next week.

The talks planned for Oct. 28 and 29 will be the first meeting between Taliban and prominent Afghans from Kabul since a July round of talks held in Doha, the capital of Qatar, where the Taliban maintain a political office.

On Monday, the U.S. State Department said its peace envoy, Zalmay Khalilzad, started a fresh round of talks with European, NATO and U.N. allies about ending the war.

Khalilzad will later meet with Russian and Chinese representatives” to discuss shared interests in seeing the war in Afghanistan come to an end,” the State Department said.

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