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 ...

CIA Director William J. Burns secretly met with the Taliban’s leader, Abdul Ghani Baradar, in Kabul, Afghanistan, according to a new report. The Washington Post reported that Burns met with ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

NEW YORK, April 24, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Evercore (NYSE: EVR) announced today that William J. Burns will join the firm in June as senior advisor for global affairs, based in Washington ...

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 ...

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 ...