The US and the Afghan Taliban have made "significant progress" in talks aimed at ending the 17-year-old conflict in Afghanistan, the US envoy has said. In a series of tweets, Zalmay Khalilzad did not give details but said the unprecedented six days of talks in Qatar were "more productive than they have been in the past". He said he was on his way to Kabul to consult Afghan government officials. Earlier, Taliban sources said the two sides had finalised a draft agreement. The deal calls for a withdrawal of foreign forces in return for assurances that al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (IS) group will not be allowed to use Afghanistan as a base, the sources said. Mr Khalilzad said talks with the Taliban would continue and that nothing had been finalised. Skip Twitter post by @US4AfghanPeace Report End of Twitter post by @US4AfghanPeace The Taliban has so far refused to hold direct talks with Afghan officials, whom they dismiss as "puppets". They ...
Game Of Thrones stars Kit Harington and Rose Leslie, who played on-screen lovers in the epic TV drama, have married.
Harington and Leslie tied the knot at Rayne Church in Aberdeenshire. She wore a full-length white wedding dress and he was dressed in a traditional morning suit.
The actors met in 2012 while filming the long-running saga in Iceland, where they were playing Jon Snow and Ygritte.
Their engagement was announced in The Times last year, and a wedding date of 23 June was posted at the Huntly registration office in Scotland. More articles