What is the current state of play in Afghanistan? Host Carol Castiel and Akmal Dawi, Digital Managing Editor in VOA’s Afghan Service, talk with former US Ambassador to Afghanistan, Ronald E. Neumann, President of the American Academy of Diplomacy about US policy toward Afghanistan.

What is the current state of play in Afghanistan? What will it take to remove impediments to lasting peace and stability in that war-torn, strategically located country? Host Carol Castiel and Akmal Dawi, Digital Managing Editor in VOA’s Afghan Service, talk with former US Ambassador to Afghanistan, Ronald E. Neumann, President of the American Academy of Diplomacy about US policy toward Afghanistan and how talk of a US troop drawdown may imperil nascent peace talks with the Taliban.