Date set for next round of Afghan-Taliban talks

The Afghan government will meet Taliban insurgents at the end of July for the highly anticipated second round of talks aimed at ending Afghanistan's 13-year war, officials said, with a possible ceasefire high on the agenda. Afghan officials held their first face-to-face talks with Taliban cadres on July 7 in Murree, a tourist town in the hills north of Islamabad, Pakistan, which were supervised by American and Chinese representatives.