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 director of the CIA met the de facto leader of the Taliban on Monday in Kabul, The Washington Post reported, citing unnamed US officials. William J. Burns met Abdul Ghani Baradar met as the US ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...