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Meeting held as part of US-Taliban deal inked early February Ankara: Top US general met with Taliban negotiators in Doha, Qatar this week to discuss the reduction of violence in Afghanistan, according to a Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) statement released Thursday. Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of JCS, along with negotiators from the Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, sat down at a table with Taliban representatives "as part of the military channel established in the U.S.-Taliban agreement," Spokeswoman Cmdr. Sarah Flaherty said. Milley underlined the need for an "immediate reduction of...