By Julian E. Barnes and Richard Pérez-Peña WASHINGTON — The C.I.A. director, William J. Burns, traveled to Kabul for talks with the Taliban leadership, American officials familiar with his ...

CIA Director William J. Burns held a secret meeting Monday in Kabul with the Taliban’s de facto leader, Abdul Ghani Baradar, in the highest-level face-to-face encounter between the Taliban and ...

CIA Director William J. Burns met face-to-face with the top Taliban leader in Kabul on Monday, according to two US officials, as the US continues airlifting American citizens and its Afghan allies ...

The former diplomat, CIA director and Biden cabinet member is releasing a memoir, titled Diplomat Spy: A Memoir of Espionage ...

To mark the 20th anniversary of the American-led invasion of Iraq, the C.I.A. director, William J. Burns ... Three months earlier, Mr. Burns was in Kabul to meet with Taliban leaders and thus ...

Former CIA director and Biden cabinet official William J. Burns is working on a book about his years leading the intelligence ...

CIA Director William ... in which the Taliban were advancing rapidly and how this was hollowing out in many ways, not just the political leadership but also the military.” Burns shared the ...

The Chicago Project on Security and Threats (CPOST) will host a discussion between former CIA Director William J. Burns and former U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel on April 16 at the David ...

President Biden invited CIA Director William Burns to join his cabinet on Friday ... Before that, he met with Taliban leaders just before the fall of Kabul in August of 2021.

WASHINGTON — CIA Director William J. Burns held a secret meeting in Kabul on Monday with the Taliban’s de facto leader Abdul Ghani Baradar in the highest-level face-to-face encounter between ...