Kabul calls for date to be set for Taliban talks

Delegates from Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the United States meet to broker peace

Afghanistan expects a date for direct talks with the Taliban to be set by the end of February, the foreign minister told an international group seeking to relaunch the peace process at a meeting in Kabul on Tuesday.

Delegates from Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the United States met in the capital for a fourth round of talks aimed at forming a path back to the nascent peace process, which was interrupted by summer's announcement that Taliban leader Mullah Omar had died.