“They’re dead. They’re dead. As far as I’m concerned, they’re

dead,” Donald Trump said when he was asked about the talks with

the Taliban.



He also spoke about the reduction for troops, “We’d like to get out,

but we’ll get out at the right time”.



Trump’s statements came after he called off peace talks with the

Taliban leaders following a deadly bombing claimed by the group in

Kabul.



Since then, both the countries- US and Taliban are blaming each

other for the collapse of nearly a year of US-Taliban negotiations in

Doha, Qatar.



On Tuesday, Trump said in a series of tweets that “over the last

four days, we have been hitting our enemy harder than at any time

in the last ten years”.



He rejected the reports which say he overruled the US Vice

President and various advisers on a potential Camp David meeting

with the Taliban.