Internally displaced Afghan children sit outside their makeshift house at a refugee camp in Kabul June 20, 2013. REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Thursday he hoped Afghan-led peace talks would start soon despite Afghan President Hamid Karzai's boycott of talks between the United States and the Taliban.
A day after the United States announced it would talk to the Taliban, whom its troops have fought in Afghanistan since 2001, Karzai said on Wednesday the Kabul government would stay out of the talks until "foreign powers" allowed the negotiations to be run by Afghans.
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