The United States President Donald Trump has called off a secret meeting with the Taliban and Afghan president Ashraf Ghani, according to foreign media outlets.

Trump said that he had been set to meet in secret on Sunday with top Taliban leaders and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani at Camp David, but that the meeting was now off following an attack in Kabul that left one US service member dead.

“Unbeknownst to almost everyone, the major Taliban leaders and, separately, the President of Afghanistan, were going to secretly meet with me at Camp David on Sunday. They were coming to the United States tonight,” Trump tweeted.

“I immediately cancelled the meeting and called off peace negotiations,” Trump said of the talks which had been ongoing for a year.

This comes as the ninth round of talks between US and Taliban representatives wrapped up in Doha days ago, as the two sides are said to have reached an agreement on key issues.

Arezo News Website – Salimi