Peace talks in Afghanistan

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN- JANUARY 18: Delegates from Pakistan, Afghanistan, China and United States attend a meeting hoping to lay the roadmap for peace talks with the Taliban, at the presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan on January 18, 2016. A second round of four-country talks aimed at reviving peace negotiations with the Taliban began in Kabul on January 18. The meeting comes as battlefield losses in Afghanistan are mounting and entire swaths of the country that cost hundreds of U.S.-led coalition and Afghan military lives to secure slip back into Taliban hands. Taliban representatives have not been invited to the talks. (Photo by Haroon Sabawoon/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)