KABUL — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo used an unannounced trip to Afghanistan on Monday to step up the Trump administration’s calls for peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban.

Flying into Kabul after visiting Vietnam, Pompeo made the appeal in meetings with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah.

‘‘The United States will support, facilitate, and participate in these discussions,’’ Pompeo later told journalists, stressing that any talks would be ‘‘Afghan-led and Afghan-owned.’’

Pompeo added: ‘‘The region and the world are all tired of what is taking place here in the same way that the Afghan people are no longer interested in seeing war.’’

However, it remains unclear how the Taliban will take such an offer after nearly 17 years of war. The United States invaded Afghanistan following the Sept. 11 terror attacks by Al Qaeda, which the Taliban government at the time had harbored.

Since then, the insurgents have repeatedly rejected such calls, demanding direct talks with the United States.

Ghani had extended a recent holiday cease-fire in hopes of encouraging the militants to negotiate, but the Taliban rejected the offer and resumed attacks.

The Taliban have seized control of several districts across the country in recent years, and launch near-daily attacks, mainly targeting security forces.

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