Head of Political Office of the Taliban Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanakzai (R) attends the second round of the Moscow format consultations on Afghanistan at the President Hotel in Moscow, Russia on November 09, 2018. (Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency)
ALMATY,: The Taliban are not ready for direct talks with the Kabul government and will negotiate with the United States instead, Russia's Interfax news agency quoted Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanakzai, head of the Taliban delegation, as saying on Friday.
A Taliban delegation on Friday attended a diplomatic conference in Russia for the first time, but the Kabul government sent no official representative, and the sides reported no progress.
