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In the three years Khalilzad has been in the role, he became the face of one of the largest US's diplomatic failures in recent memory. Last year, Zalmay Khalilzad shook hands with Taliban's co-founder Mullah Baradar Khalilzad one of the few US diplomats to have relations with the Taliban

The fruit of more than a year of on-and-off talks, the agreement, signed in Doha on Saturday, lets Trump claim a major foreign policy success, a prize that has eluded him on North Korea, Venezuela, Iran and other priorities.

While the agreement paves the way for the United States to gradually pull out of its longest war, many expect that talks to come between the multiple Afghan sides will be far more complicated.