President Trump issues statement that U.S. to sign historic deal with Taliban, triggering a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.

If the agreement with the U.S. holds, it could pave the way for a deal that would result in U.S. troops coming home.

The U.S. and Taliban reached an agreement on Friday to reduce violence, which could open the door to the two sides finalizing the larger deal reached last year.

U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper says a truce agreement between the United States and the Taliban that could lead to the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan is not without risk but “looks very promising

The U.S. and Taliban are nearing a deal to reduce violence in Afghanistan and finalize talks that would lead to American troop withdrawal.

Washington's peace envoy has traveled to Pakistan to boost regional support for reducing violence in Afghanistan ahead of a final deal to end America's longest war

It provides a window for a peace agreement with the U.S. to be signed.

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American and Australian professors Kevin King and Timothy Weeks were kidnapped in Afghanistan and held hostage for 3 years and released by the Taliban in a prisoner swap.

Taliban say they freed 2 hostages, American and an Australian, in Afghanistan after release of 3 top insurgents

American Kevin King and Australian Timothy Weeks were turned over by the Taliban to an elite team of U.S. special operations forces in eastern Afghanistan.

A Taliban spokesman says three Taliban prisoners who were to be freed in exchange for an American and an Australian national, both kidnapped in 2016, are still in custody in Bagram prison, north of the capital Kabul

The Taliban will release U.S., Australian hostages in a swap with the Afghan government, according to its president.

The Taliban say a fresh round of intra-Afghan peace talks is to be held in China next week

The president revealed he had invited Taliban leadership to Camp David to ink a peace deal; the meeting was pulled after a car bomb attack killed a U.S. soldier.

After calling off a secret meeting with the Taliban at Camp David this weekend, President Trump declared that Afghanistan peace talks are officially dead.

President Trump declared that Afghanistan peace talks are officially dead.

Three others were wounded and a U.S. contractor was also killed, making it the deadliest day for the U.S. in Afghanistan this year.

The special U.S. envoy for Afghanistan is returning to the country.

The Afghan government stayed away, saying the talks undermine its legitimacy.

The Nobel Laureate returned to Pakistan for the first time since the Taliban tried to assassinate her in October 2012, for advocating for girls' education.

Thick, dark smoke was seen rising into the sky.

The American mom held hostage by the Taliban for five years says she was beaten and raped as she tried to protect her children from their captors.

Joshua Boyle, the Canadian who was kidnapped in Afghanistan along with his family, has been accused of physical and sexual assault of a woman, physical assault of a child and unlawful confinement.

In her first television interview, Caitlan Coleman Boyle describes how she defied her captors, suffering beatings and abuse while she tried to raise and educate her three children born into captivity.

In her first television interview, Caitlan Coleman Boyle told ABC News that she endured beatings and abuse as she tried to protect her children.

In their first television interview, American mother Caitlan Coleman Boyle and Canadian father Joshua Boyle describe how they kept their family together even as they and their children endured brutal treatment by their captors.

In her first television interview since being freed from Taliban captivity, Caitlan Coleman says she was beaten and raped by the guards as she tried to protect her children.

The Taliban put out what it called a warning about the health of a U.S. hostage.

The American also defended the couple's decision to have children in captivity.

Caitlan Coleman, who was held hostage with her husband and three children for five years by a Taliban-affiliated terrorist network, has been hospitalized, according to her husband Joshua Boyle.

American Caitlan Coleman, her Canadian husband Joshua Boyle and their three children are staying with relatives in Toronto after being held captive in the mountains of Afghanistan by a Taliban-affiliated terrorist network.

Rescued Canadian hostage Joshua Boyle said his children are "improving" after spending their entire life being help captive in the mountains of Afghanistan.

Joshua Boyle also said the Taliban-linked terrorists raped his wife.

Joshua Boyle says Taliban-linked captors killed infant daughter, raped American wife.

Tensions between the Coleman and Boyle families following the decisions about their journey home have already begun to flare.

Coleman and her husband were abducted by the Taliban while hiking in Afghanistan in 2012. She gave birth to three children while in captivity.

Coleman and her family have been recovered five years after being abducted by the Taliban.

An American woman, her Canadian husband and their three young children were rescued on Wednesday, five years to the day since the couple was kidnapped by the Taliban.

About 100 more Marines will be sent to the troubled Helmand Province in Afghanistan to help the 300 Americans who are already there advising and assisting Afghan forces.

This is the first glimpse of Caitlan Coleman, 30, since 2014.

Caitlan Coleman, 29, has been held with Canadian husband for more than 3 years.

Mawlawi Haibatullah Akhundzada will take command of the Taliban.

Mullah Mansur was planning attacks against U.S. in Afghanistan, U.S. says.

"Mansur posed a continuing, imminent threat to U.S. personnel," said John Kerry.