Taliban talks dead: what comes next for the U.S. in Afghanistan?
September 09, 2019 at 17:11 PM EDT
Days after U.S. Army Sgt. First Class Elis Angel Barreto Ortiz and eleven civilians were killed in a Kabul suicide bombing – for which the Taliban claimed responsibility – President Trump said Monday that peace talks between the United States and Taliban leaders are dead. So what come next for bloodstained Afghanistan and U.S. involvement in the war that has raged for the past 18 years?