KABUL (Reuters) - A three-member Taliban team arrived in Kabul on Tuesday to begin a prisoner exchange process pivotal to kick-starting talks between the insurgent group and negotiators named by the Afghan government to end the country's 18-year-old war.
The peace talks, known as the intra-Afghan dialogue, were envisaged in an agreement signed between the United States and the Taliban in Doha, which also stipulated an exchange of 6,000 prisoners held by the Afghan government and the group.
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