Despite Surging Violence, US. Urges Afghanistan to Respect Peace Accord.

The article discusses United States officials scrambled to keep Afghanistan's tenuous peace process from falling apart, blaming the Islamic State for horrific attacks that have killed dozens of people and further inflamed tensions between the Taliban and the government in Kabul and Zalmay Khalilzad, the chief U.S. negotiator for Afghan reconciliation talks, acknowledged "challenges and difficulties" in moving ahead with plans to create a power-sharing government.