Taliban, Pompeo discuss peace in call

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has spoken with the Taliban's chief negotiator amid controversy in Washington over reports that President Donald Trump knew Russia had paid the Taliban bounties to kill US troops. Pompeo and Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar held a video conference late on Monday in which Pompeo pressed the armed group to reduce violence in Afghanistan and discussed ways of moving a peace deal signed between the parties in February forward.