The U.S. State Department said in a statement that, U.S. officials told Afghanistan’s Islamic Emirate that Washington was open to technical talks on economic stability and discussions on combating narcotics trafficking.

A delegation of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan will travel to Doha to talks with US officials.

The US officials met in-person with the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s (IEA) officials for the first time since the US claimed it had killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in late July.

John Sopko, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) told US Congress on Wednesday that US officials have ‘routinely lied’ to the public with exaggerating reports on the Afghan war. Sopko was summoned by the US Congress to talk about the ‘Afghanpapers’ recently published by America’s Washington Post.