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b'After years of false starts, the United States has signed a landmark deal with the Taliban to end the war in Afghanistan. We traveled to the front lines of the war \\u2014 and to the signing ceremony in Doha, Qatar \\u2014 to investigate whether peace is actually possible.\\n\\nGuest: Mujib Mashal, senior correspondent for The New York Times in Afghanistan.\\n\\nFor more information on today\\u2019s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.\\xa0\\n\\nBackground reading:\\xa0The agreement between Washington and the Taliban seemed to be an important first step in ending the war in Afghanistan. Then the violence started again.Zalmay Khalilzad, the Afghan-born American envoy and architect of the deal, seemed to have been handed an impossible and thankless assignment. Here\\u2019s how he pulled it off.'