China News Service, October 9. According to a CNN report, on October 8, local time, US government officials held face-to-face talks with representatives of the Taliban in Afghanistan.

According to reports, this is the first meeting since the US military killed al-Qaeda leader al-Zawahiri.

  According to reports, the United States sent the deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency and the senior State Department official responsible for Afghanistan affairs to the Qatari capital Doha to meet with a Taliban delegation, including the Taliban intelligence chief Wasik.