Taliban name negotiating team ahead of US talks

KABUL : The Taliban on Tuesday announced a 14-member negotiating team ahead of talks this month with US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, who has been meeting with the insurgents to try to end America’s longest war. Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai will head the Taliban team, which includes five former inmates of the US prison at Guantanamo Bay who were released in 2014.