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New Delhi: The Afghan government and the Taliban will sit today for peace talks after two decades of fierce warfare.
Talks will begin a day after the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks which led the US to invade Afghanistan and topple the Taliban regime that had been sheltering Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
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The US-backed negotiations come six months later than planned owing to bitter disagreements over a controversial prisoner swap agreed in February.