USG Madame Secretary of State Mike Pompeo went to Qatar this weekend to watch USG envoy Zalmay Khalilzad sign the USG's surrender to the Taliban, leaving the end of the USG's war in Afghanistan contingent on the withdrawal of all USG troops from Afghanistan within the next 14 months (archived, archived). For its part the Taliban agreed to token language about not allowing foreign groups to use their territory as a staging ground for attacks on the US.