The Taliban’s takeover ended the war associated with their insurgency, but the country’s underlying drivers of conflict remain unresolved. The country has entered an unpredictable new phase in the decades-long, elusive effort to achieve peace and stability. But even after the collapse of the Islamic Republic and the re-establishment of the Islamic Emirate, peacebuilding efforts remain critical in Afghanistan. mediator Lakhdar Brahimi, who has tirelessly pursued a peace deal that other diplomats consider “mission impossible”, said the opposition delegation would be back on February 10, but President Bashar al-Assad’s delegates had told him they would have to check with Damascus before agreeing to return.The United States’ attempts to sustain a formal peace process between the Taliban and the former Afghan government grew defunct when the insurgent movement marched on Kabul. The Russian government said Assad was acting “in good faith” in carrying out last year’s international chemical disarmament agreement and a June 30 deadline for eliminating the poison gas agents remains viable. The Obama administration said it was working with partners to ratchet up pressure on Syria to accelerate the process, but stopped short of threatening any action if Damascus did not get the chemical weapons deliveries back on track. Washington accused Damascus of foot-dragging that put the plan weeks behind schedule, and Moscow - President Bashar al-Assad’s big power ally - rejected this. Darkening the atmosphere further, the United States and Russia clashed over the pace of Syria’s handover of chemical arms for destruction.
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