[ambrose]

30,000 Taliban soldiers surrendered unconditionally after negotiations.

After negotiations? Doesn't sound "unconditional" to me...

[The_Reader_David]

Sometimes negotiations lead to unconditional surrender: conditions get worse for the surrendering side, the negotiations make clear that they will not get any favorable conditions, and they finally give in.

[concerned about politics]

30,000 Taliban soldiers surrendered unconditionally after negotiations.
After negotiations? Doesn't sound "unconditional" to me...

Here's the deal, surrender or you're dead. They took the deal.

[Salman]

30,000 Taliban soldiers surrendered unconditionally after negotiations.

After negotiations? Doesn't sound "unconditional" to me...

Well... Maybe they negotiated for a while, realized it was useless, and gave it up. At least I hope that's what happened.

Of course every "unconditional surrender" contains the implicit condition of being allowed to live.