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US House Panel to Force Testimony from Trump's Afghan Envoy

Reuters

   The U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee said
   Thursday it will subpoena President Donald Trump's special Afghanistan
   envoy, Zalmay Khalilzad, to testify on Sept. 19, after the abrupt
   cancellation of talks with the country's Taliban militia.

   Representative Eliot Engel, the committee's Democratic chairman, said
   he signed the subpoena after the U.S. State Department ignored numerous
   requests for briefings by Khalilzad about the Afghanistan peace plan
   and the administration's path forward in that country.

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