" Trump claimed "we're meeting with [the Taliban] and we're saying it has to be a cease-fire, and they didn't want to do a cease-fire and now they do want to do a cease-fire.
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"We announced a cease-fire, but conditioned on the fact that it would be a mutual cease-fire," Mr. Ghani said.
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"They didn't want to do a cease-fire, but now they do want to do a cease-fire, I believe," he said.
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And during the cease-fire, Russia took over vast swatches of land, and then they said we don't want the cease-fire anymore.
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"The Taliban wants to make a deal, and we're meeting with them and we're saying it has to be a cease-fire, and they didn't want to do a cease-fire and now they do want to do a cease-fire," he added.
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Tillerson said Russian-sponsored cease-fire talks could generate momentum toward broader talks about a political transition — if they create a durable cease-fire.
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And what makes you think that the cease-fire will succeed this time, when in the past (inaudible) agreements about cease-fire have failed?
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This cease-fire is not for us as Aleppo people, but this is for you respected journalists, to say Russia is reviving a cease-fire.
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Aleppo cease-fire falls apart before first evacuations take place Aleppo cease-fire falls apart before first evacuations take place Residents of eastern Aleppo had their hopes of escape dashed Wednesday morning after a cease-fire brokered by Russia and Turkey fell apart less than 24 hours after it was announced.
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"We support this cease-fire in principle, but unfortunately we have serious concerns about the future of this cease-fire as the fighting goes on," said the spokesman, Ibrahim Kalin.
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If this cease-fire is to last, the United States and Russia must find ways to work beyond the lack of trust that undermined the previous cease-fire, in February.
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The phrase is probably being used to skirt the Taliban's rejection, for now, of a cease-fire, but its meaning is effectively the same as a temporary and limited cease-fire.
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The cease-fire, part of a deal between the U.S. and Russia, calls for the two to share targeting information on Islamic State forces if the cease-fire holds for seven days.
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The cease-fire agreement in southwest Syria between the United States, Russia and Jordan is "an interim step" toward a longer cease-fire across the country, a U.S. official told reporters Friday.
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BRUSSELS — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo briefed NATO ambassadors Friday night on a cease-fire that's not quite a cease-fire, worked out between allies that are not quite acting like allies.
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" It says both sides agreed to fully implement the 2003 cease-fire agreement "in letter and spirit forthwith and to ensure that henceforth the cease-fire will not be violated by both sides.
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Here's the latest: • Calls for a cease-fire in Yemen.
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After a successful three-day cease-fire in June that was observed scrupulously by both sides, many Afghans had been hoping for another cease-fire during the Eid al-Adha holiday later this month.
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"The last cease-fire in Afghanistan revealed the deep desire of the Afghan people to end the conflict, and we hope another cease-fire will move the country closer to sustainable security," Mr. Pompeo said.
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Islamic State (ISIS) fighters did not sign onto the cease-fire.
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Do your part: Declare a cease fire and stop throwing shade.
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Turkish and Syrian Kurdish forces have since reached a cease-fire.
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Stern skillfully negotiated a cease-fire on his show Monday morning.
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"The youth achieved the cease-fire at Warshafana," Mr. Alhraish explained.
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And despite a tenuous cease-fire, the fighting is not over.
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A previous cease-fire agreement that went into effect on Dec.
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That is the best way to build on this cease-fire.
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I don't trust all these political talks and cease-fire deals.
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They pretend to be human by asking for a cease-fire.
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They prepare their weapons to kill others after the cease-fire.
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A package of measures to control the cease-fire is another.
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Royce said he doubted Russia's sincerity in wanting a cease-fire.
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Clinton flew to Israel and Egypt to negotiate a cease-fire.
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Despite a cease-fire, shelling and gunfire persist, especially at night.
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There was little hope, though, that a cease-fire would happen.
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Mr. Pompeo and Mr. Mattis have called for a cease-fire.
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But he cautioned that the cease-fire might be only temporary.
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It was also not specified when the cease-fire would begin.
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That cease-fire is still in place, but in name only.
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That cease-fire is the first Ramadan truce in 20033 years.
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It was also not specified when the cease-fire would begin.
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The two presidents agreed to a prearranged limited Syrian cease-fire.
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There was another cease-fire agreement for a slice of Syria.
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The initial objective should be a comprehensive and enduring cease-fire.
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Fighting near the Barada Valley has continued despite the cease-fire.
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What's needed first is a cease-fire between governor and mayor.
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The talks came about as the result of a cease-fire brokered by Turkey and Russia last month, with Iran — a key ally to Assad — brought on board as a third guarantor of the cease-fire.
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"If there is a cease-fire in Libya, then the E.U. must be prepared to help implement and monitor this cease-fire — possibly also with soldiers, for example as part of an E.U. mission," he said.
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" The statement from the Kremlin said that the two leaders had "reiterated their commitment to strengthening the cease-fire," and that "additional measures will be put in place for rapid response to violations of the cease-fire.
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Russia seems to be engaging more closely in the cease-fire process.
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A temporary cease-fire between the two sides ended on Tuesday night.
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"You cannot ask the person defending himself to cease fire," he said.
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Kerry spent months negotiating the cease-fire with Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov.
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But the continued outbursts of fire have jeopardized those cease-fire efforts.
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And then also, on the Syrian cease-fire, when does it begin?
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It underlines the urgent need for a real and verified cease-fire.
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Various cease-fire initiatives have repeatedly failed to separate the warring parties.
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Over the past week, mediators helped to broker a new cease-fire.
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The new cease-fire, less than a week old, is already tenuous.
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Eighteen of the trucks were destroyed, and so was the cease-fire.
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People in Aleppo are not very comfortable with the cease-fire agreement.
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"This is a unilateral cease-fire," said the spokesman, Ateny Wek Ateny.
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It had already become clear that the cease-fire was in trouble.
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Comply fully with the 2008 Six-Point Cease-fire Agreement with Georgia ...
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In 2012 and 2013, Turkey and Kurdish groups negotiated a cease-fire.
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But Syrian-led Kurdish forces say the cease-fire is persistently violated.
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The powers have blamed each other as the cease-fire has eroded.
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The cease-fire expires tonight and Turkey is keen to continue fighting.
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Since then, the countries have exchanged daily allegations of cease-fire violations.
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Sunday is most likely football; there'll be a cease-fire with politics.
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But Hamas also accused Israel of deliberately sabotaging the nascent cease-fire.
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Gaza: Israel and Palestinian militants agreed to a new, fragile cease-fire.
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John W. Nicholson Jr., said his troops would honor the cease-fire.
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"Cease-fire?" asked Sayed Jahangir Karamat, the deputy police chief of Badakhshan.
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An overlapping Taliban cease-fire was for the three days of Eid.
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Qamar Javed Bajwa, a day before the cease-fire was announced. Gen.
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Here's what you need to know: • A cease-fire offer in Afghanistan.
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Meanwhile, Erdoğan rejected the call for a cease-fire before Thursday's meeting.
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Mr. Lavrov said the new cease-fire would go into effect Monday.
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Hamas first mentioned a cease-fire around midnight, but Israel denied it.
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The White House is pressing for a cease-fire in the region.
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Trump said he believes the Taliban are ready for a cease-fire.
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It called for a cease-fire across Syria to begin at midnight.
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Gun positions were unmanned, as if a cease-fire were in effect.
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For this cease-fire — the first major cease-fire since the war began in 85033 — to become a political win, the parties should develop next steps on a path to negotiate their grievances rather than fight each other.
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This secret channel played a crucial role in bringing about a cease-fire in 1975, the end of the first hunger strike in 1980 and, crucially, the 1994 cease-fire and peace talks under Prime Minister John Major.
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The Afghan Taliban have announced a three-day cease-fire over the Eid al-Fitr holiday at the end of the holy month of Ramadan, a first for the group, following an earlier cease-fire announcement by the government.
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Three documents had been signed under the agreement, said Putin: a cease-fire between the Syrian regime and the armed opposition; a package of measures to monitor the cease-fire; and a "declaration of readiness" to commence peace talks.
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" But, he said, "excluding Russian aerial attacks from a cease-fire is absurd.
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The latest attempt at a cease-fire in December was violated within hours.
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The holiday, and the cease-fire, is expected to begin later this week.
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A provisional cease-fire is supposed to be in effect now in Syria.
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A cease-fire between the two sides went into effect in late June.
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Soulja Boy's negotiating a cease-fire with Shia LaBeouf ... terms and conditions apply.
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Today there's no cease-fire, and we're not talking to them right now.
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But that's the nature of the beginning of the cease-fire, almost always.
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Other attempts at a cease-fire in Syria have all ended in failure.
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On Saturday, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia called for a cease-fire.
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Relief for these areas is an important component of the cease-fire agreement.
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A Syrian cease-fire appeared to be largely holding on its second day.
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A cease-fire agreed upon last week has largely held across the capital.
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Typically, the O.S.C.E. reports from dozens to hundreds of cease-fire violations daily.
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Although a fragile internal cease-fire currently holds, the party is chronically divided.
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If cease-fire violations are punished inconsistently, combatants perceive cheating as less risky.
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We in Aleppo support the cease-fire and stopping the killing in Syria.
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Here's what you need to know: • Calls for a cease-fire in Yemen.
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Henry Kissinger was in Paris, preparing to negotiate a cease-fire in Vietnam.
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Those on board said most likely not, as it was a cease-fire.
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In the short term, the new cease-fire freezes this state of affairs.
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You don't even have the political cease-fire that had been traditionally observed.
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The Afghan government still seemed to be pushing for an extensive cease-fire.
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The U.S. also agreed to send representatives to cease-fire talks next month.
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But the clock is ticking to the cease-fire, and at 11 a.m.
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Pakistan and India tried a cease-fire in 2003 along the disputed border.
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We are happy with this cease-fire news and hope it will last.
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Trade talks with China, a cease-fire in Kashmir and royal wedding fever.
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The group announced another cease-fire in October 2011, and this one held.
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There are some hopeful signs, including a limited cease-fire in southwestern Syria.
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Some even called the cease-fire a time to regroup for future battles.
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Russia and Turkey may have agreed on a tentative cease-fire plan for Syria Russia and Turkey may have agreed on a tentative cease-fire plan for Syria Russia and Turkey have negotiated a general cease-fire in Syria, according to a Turkish state-run news agency, potentially signaling the beginning of the end of the five-year conflict that has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.
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She rejected any talk of a cease-fire as an effort to aid terrorists.
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"Is the market pricing in a cease-fire?" asked Scott Redler, partner with T3Live.com.
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I think the market has priced in about 75 percent of a cease-fire.
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The "Mad Money" host noted that retailers will also benefit from the cease-fire.
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The laying-down of arms is a critical prerequisite to a permanent cease-fire.
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Mr. de Mistura said the goal of the talks remained a national cease-fire.
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Russia proposed earlier this week the starting of a cease-fire in early March.
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Amid the Twitter drama, Cyrus posted a KIMOJI on Instagram, encouraging a cease-fire.
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If diplomacy is to endure, there must be a verifiable cease-fire in place.
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These forces continue to advance toward Jinwar from the west, ignoring the cease-fire.
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David Davidsyan, with the Karabakh military, said in an announcement of the cease-fire.
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The Associated Press: U.S., China put the brakes on trade dispute with cease-fire.
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The cease-fire was a week old and fraying when the green light came.
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It did not agree to the cease-fire until the siege had been established.
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Sunday's airstrikes seemed to signal an end to efforts to respect the cease-fire.
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Other issues include a cease-fire and intra-Afghan negotiations on the country's future.
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At one point, a cease-fire lasting several days appeared to be under discussion.
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The cease-fire that ended the war has largely endured, despite brief flare-ups.
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Early in the siege, the citizen lives in hope, believing in cease-fire agreements.
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A cease-fire is to begin on April 10, leading up to the talks.
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The big picture: Assad has already violated cease-fire agreements in de-escalation zones.
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But still it's early to judge if the cease-fire will last or not.
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"We are observing the cease-fire agreement in a very serious manner," he said.
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The consequences if the cease-fire does not work are clear to everyone here.
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Rebel commanders said that if the cease-fire did not work, they would fight.
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The cease-fire proved the wisdom of the Afghan people over all other assumptions.
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"Our main goal is to ensure a permanent cease-fire and stability," he said.
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Late Tuesday afternoon, Hamas leaders announced a cease-fire and Israel eventually followed suit.
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Government forces have exploited loopholes in the cease-fire agreement to continue their advance.
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President Trump's tweet after Russia declared a cease-fire was too little, too late.
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Are you O.K. with Erdogan saying he's not going to do a cease-fire?
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Crucially, they reported what they had witnessed to headquarters, which ordered a cease-fire.
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One is about a political resolution and the other is about a cease-fire.
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The armistice was a military document, setting forth the terms for a cease-fire.
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A fragile cease-fire brokered in late August has been holding despite some violations.
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But it has been three years since a permanent cease-fire went into effect.
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The proposal raises the possibility of outside forces' helping to guarantee a cease-fire.
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All sides should cease fire simultaneously and the government should release prisoners, it added.
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The White House has reached several cease-fire agreements with China, but none lasted.
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Apparently, the group still had not signed when the cease-fire began at midnight.
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The cease-fire officially took effect at sundown Monday in Syria, or about noon in Washington, D.C. In the weekend leading up to the cease-fire, violence reportedly surged, with reports indicating nearly 100 people were killed in attacks on rebel-held areas.
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Meanwhile, opposition spokesman Mabior Garang said there was no guarantee the cease-fire will work.
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However, confusion over the exact timing of the tariffs cease-fire soured investor sentiment overnight.
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It says the cease-fire does not include al-Qaida or the Islamic State group.
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Suu Kyi has previously called on all armed ethnic groups to sign the cease-fire.
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A groundbreaking cease-fire was announced by Afghanistan's leader Ashraf Gani, coinciding with Eid celebrations.
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It's not a full cease-fire, and even then it may be difficult to do.
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Mr. Kerry is turning to the more immediate questions of cease-fire and humanitarian access.
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"We are complying fully with the obligation to observe the cease-fire agreement," Lt.-Gen.
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The protest came as Egypt tries to broker a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas.
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Galant said what is at issue is a cease-fire, not a full-scale agreement.
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The delegation is in Gaza amid high-level discussions about an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire.
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The cease-fire took effect at midnight Friday and lasts through the three-day holiday.
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All sides should cease fire simultaneously and the Syrian government should release prisoners, it added.
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Earlier on Thursday, Russia announced a cease-fire between opposition groups and the Syrian government.
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The most recent proposal, calling for a seven-day cease-fire, came earlier this week.
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After months of negotiation between Kerry and Lavrov, the cease-fire took effect Sept. 12.
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"I negotiated the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas in November of 20143," she said.
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Or it could be the recent-days collapse of a fragile cease-fire in Gaza.
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Mr. Kerry called Mr. Assad "a spoiler" who did not believe in the cease-fire.
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Turkey is expected to agree to a permanent cease-fire after the withdrawal, Pence added.
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The cease-fire is set to begin on Monday at sundown, when the holiday starts.
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There was no sign that combatants were putting down their weapons before the cease-fire.
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Op-Ed Contributor WASHINGTON — THE partial cease-fire in Syria's civil war is welcome news.
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Now a self-professed socialist, he has struck a cease-fire deal with communist rebels.
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World News: The Syrian military extended a fragile cease-fire that had previously broken down.
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The partial cease-fire in Syria that began on Monday night showed signs of fraying.
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Ignoring a United Nations Security Council call for a cease-fire, the Israelis pressed on.
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But our cease-fire was endorsed by the Taliban leadership and relished by their fighters.
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But as in other conflicts, a cease-fire in a pizza war isn't easily achieved.
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The country halted the purchases in August when Trump abruptly ended the trade cease-fire.
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Some Darfuri rebel factions declared a cease-fire in 2015, but sporadic violence has continued.
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Without specifying what should be done, he did not rule out breaking the cease-fire.
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And in many places the tacit cease-fire would be extended to these meal times.
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The Palestinians said early on Monday that they had reached a cease-fire with Israel.
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There were reports of hurried efforts by Egyptian mediators to restore the shaky cease-fire.
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The new agreement combines elements of an earlier deal and includes a unilateral cease-fire.
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The attacks come after the end of a three-day Taliban cease-fire on Monday.
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They are both expected to push President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to negotiate a cease-fire.
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Turkey has warned Syria to retreat to cease-fire lines that were agreed in 2018.
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However, the AP noted that sporadic clashes have continued despite the five-day cease-fire.
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In reality, sporadic fighting around the outskirts of Tripoli had continued throughout the cease-fire.
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Some lamented the Israeli government's dismissal of exploring a long term cease-fire with Hamas.
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Russia has promised to reinstate the cease-fire even as its planes bomb civilian hospitals.
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A cease-fire had been demanded by Washington before any peace agreement could be signed.
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The Taliban has been hesitant to declare a cease-fire for fear talks would fail.
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Meanwhile, the U.S., Russia and Jordan agreed on fostering a cease-fire in Syria's southwest.
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The signatories agreed to a cease-fire, but, the report noted, real peace remained elusive.
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A cease-fire was brokered by Russia with Turkey to end fighting in late October.
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Since the 85033 cease fire between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Russia has favored the Armenian cause.
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In fact, it's not a cease-fire; it's a demand of capitulation of the Kurds.
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"But doesn't appear 'cease-fire' signals change in Erdogan's goal," he said in a tweet.
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The 1991 cease-fire promised the people of Western Sahara a referendum on self-determination.
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"Expressionless" signatories agreed to a cease-fire, but, the report noted, real peace remained elusive.
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This could be observed when the Taliban declared a three-day cease-fire in June.
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But shelling on the neighboring Hama area breached the cease-fire overnight Thursday, residents said.
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Afghanistan's last cease-fire was declared for three days last June during the same festival.
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I think the president and his team recognize that a year ago when President Trump met with President Putin, they arranged a cease-fire in south western Syria, a cease-fire that was broken by the Syrian government aided by the Russian government last month.
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Colonel Qaddafi, the Americans thought, would simply use a cease-fire as an opportunity to regroup.
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After the attack, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani announced a nine-day extension of the cease-fire.
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Enthused by the response, Ghani announced a unilateral cease-fire extension which expires at midnight Friday.
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Then, on Saturday after announcing the executions, the Saudis ended a shaky cease-fire in Yemen.
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Brett McGurk told CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday the cease-fire was expected to start Thursday.
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To date, the Taliban have resisted that, fearing that a cease-fire could break their ranks.
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Others included chemical attacks in Syria, violence in Gaza and daily cease-fire breaches in Ukraine.
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Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna have reached a cease fire in their ongoing child support negotiations.
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The ultimate goal is a cease-fire, but short term it's just to keep them talking.
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The Associated Press reported Syria's military has also said it has agreed to the cease-fire.
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And Randi will see what happens when a cease fire in the education wars breaks out.
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Dozens of soldiers from both sides were killed before a cease-fire was proclaimed on Tuesday.
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Of course, a cease-fire is not a peace agreement, but it can lead to one.
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The dispute has continued to simmer since the cease-fire in 1994, with occasional flare-ups.
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I am happy with the cease-fire, because all Syrians are tired of this absurd war.
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They know the cease-fire was negotiated between Russia and the United States, over their heads.
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The first day of the cease-fire, they bombed us with gas jars stuffed with explosives.
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Mr. Santos has warned that a cease-fire with the rebels will expire on Oct. 31.
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"The cease-fire, if they were serious, would have gone into effect right now," he added.
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On Monday, a cease-fire was reached after being brokered by Egypt and the United Nations.
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But residents say no aid has been allowed in, and no cease-fire has been implemented.
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Turkey's defense ministry claims Syrian Kurdish fighters have violated the cease-fire at least 20 times.
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The Taliban reciprocated shortly after with a cease-fire for three days over the Eid holiday.
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There has been no official word from Turkey, Russia, or Syria about the reported cease-fire.
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Among the many issues they would discuss are a permanent cease-fire and mechanisms for enforcement.
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Mr. Netanyahu defended his acceptance of the cease-fire by saying Hamas had begged for it.
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He noted that the priority was to help the warring parties reach a cease-fire agreement.
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Many analysts and officials were expecting an uptick in violence immediately after the cease-fire ended.
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Either new fighting will erupt or, without sufficient oversight, the cease-fire will erode into nonexistence.
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The Syrian region is currently under a cease-fire after a siege by Turkish military forces.
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In the details, the agreement looks more like a temporary cease-fire than a lasting peace.
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Is the long-short battle over or do easier spreads mark only a temporary cease fire?
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A cease-fire is needed as Mr. Assad, with Russian help, attacks the last desperate refugees.
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Despite a negotiated cease-fire, skirmishes break out daily, most of them with long-distance artillery.
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Washington has demanded that a cease-fire take place before any peace agreement could be signed.
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Mr. Trump agreed to send a representative to Russia-brokered cease-fire talks, which start today.
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The country's two warring parties were set to sign a cease-fire agreement in Moscow today.
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The official said the cease-fire was, at best, a modest advance in ending the conflict.
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Taliban negotiators worked with the ruling council for a week before agreeing to the cease-fire.
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That's why members should use the Apple/FBI cease-fire as a chance to get smart.
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The U.S. and Russia have reached a cease-fire agreement in southwest Syria, officials said Friday.
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Everything you need to know about the very tenuous cease-fire in Syria Everything you need to know about the very tenuous cease-fire in Syria Syria's government and opposition groups have agreed to a nationwide cease-fire and are ready to hold peace talks, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Thursday, raising faint hopes of movement toward a political settlement in the complex, yearslong conflict that has left hundreds of thousands dead and 11 million displaced.
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Trump and Xi reached the cease-fire over a working dinner in Buenos Aires on Saturday evening.
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The latest attempt at a cease-fire was violated within hours in late December of last year.
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Since 2015, the government has promoted a cease-fire agreement that several ethnic minority groups have signed.
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The hope is that it will serve as a dry run for a more lasting cease-fire.
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But U.S. negotiators knew they could not get the Taliban to agree to a full cease-fire.
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World News: The United States has suspended its talks with Russia about a cease-fire in Syria.
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Instead, a scheduled meeting of a cease-fire task force was canceled and violence continued across Syria.
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The cease-fire begins at sundown Monday, Kerry said, coinciding with the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday.
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It's unclear what has caused Trump to end the trade war cease-fire with these new tariffs.
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Trump agreed to send a representative to Syrian cease-fire talks in Kazakhstan that begin on Wednesday.
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U.S. Colonel Ryan Dillon said Friday the Kurds and Iraqis had almost reached a cease-fire deal.
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But our focus is to make sure that, you know, we're focused on strengthening the cease fire.
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The agreement comes on the heels of a cease-fire announced by Russia and the United States.
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"The FARC must now not just begin a cease-fire but end all their hostilities," he said.
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Negotiations are underway to bring a cease-fire back into effect in the Syrian city of Aleppo.
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A Russian-brokered cease-fire ended the flare-up after several dozen soldiers died on both sides.
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The situation in Syria on Sunday showed that the cease-fire that began last Monday was fraying.
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In the end, we understood that no one respects the cease-fire and it won't last long.
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The partial cease-fire is over after a humanitarian aid convoy was attacked in Syria on Monday.
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That means finding a compromise to preserve the cease-fire and move toward disarmament of the insurgency.
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Pence hailed the cease-fire as the way to end the bloodshed caused by Turkey&aposs invasion.
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France has proposed a United Nations Security Council resolution that would revive the cease-fire in Syria.
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When the so-called cease-fire ended in Aleppo last month, a new, vicious aerial campaign began.
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The cease-fire, which Mr. Kerry helped negotiate in Munich last winter, has never really taken hold.
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The dispute has continued to simmer since a 1994 cease-fire, with occasional flare-ups of violence.
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"But," he added, "we still welcome a real truce that guarantees cease-fire and humanitarian aid entry."
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The deadline for the withdrawal is Wednesday, and a cease-fire is to commence five days later.
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Because the cease-fire was never succeeded by a treaty, technically the parties are still at war.
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The cease-fire of 1973 did not bring peace to the battered rural area and its people.
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A Saudi-backed opposition force said it knew nothing of the negotiations but supported a cease-fire.
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We welcome calls by the United States for a cease-fire, but strong words are not enough.
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The United Nations and representatives of European countries in Afghanistan welcomed the news of the cease-fire.
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He covered every cease-fire between India and Pakistan with optimism, even though they all inevitably failed.
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As recently as two weeks ago, the Americans promised "serious repercussions" if the cease-fire was violated.
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United Nations officials on Tuesday declared the situation "extreme" and called for an immediate nationwide cease-fire.
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Mr. Wang's proposal called for a cease-fire without a definition of who should stop what activities.
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Now he was back on duty at the checkpoint, watching the last moments of the cease-fire.
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Much of the talk in Kabul has already turned to what the cease-fire achieved, if anything.
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They can get more complicated if Russian forces appear on Israel's border to manage the cease-fire.
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Thousands of Syrian militants and refugees, like those above, are returning home under a cease-fire deal.
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The conflict ended with a cease-fire, and eventually an agreement was reached demarcating the disputed border.
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On Thursday, Mr. Putin announced that the Syrian government had reached a cease-fire agreement with rebels.
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Criticism of the cease-fire deal — which President Donald Trump called "a great day for civilization" — mounted.
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After Trump relented his stance, Taliban leadership said in December that they would offer a cease-fire.
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Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin reached an agreement on a limited cease-fire in the country's southwest.
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After Mr. Green secured the nomination, Mr. Bloomberg signaled quickly that any political cease-fire had passed.
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The K.I.A. was among the first groups to sign a cease-fire with the former ruling junta.
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Diplomats from both countries, among others, will meet in Kazakhstan today for cease-fire talks on Syria.
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In 2013, Iran proposed an immediate cease-fire and a plan to end the war in Syria.
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The governor said that senior Afghan military and police officials were trying to broker a cease-fire.
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Ghani has been demanding a cease-fire before engaging in talks, something the Taliban have steadfastly refused.
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The Korean War was halted with a cease-fire that left the peninsula still technically at war.
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The cease-fire was so successful that no violent incidents broke out between Taliban and government sides.
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"I hope there will be no cease-fire, because if there is a cease-fire, Turks will increase their support for criminals and traitors," said Ahmad al-Omar from the northern Aleppo province, adding that Turkey may seek to let opposition fighters in via its border with Syria.
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Hamas later fired rockets for the first time since the 2014 war ended with an informal cease-fire.
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Deraa rebels last week agreed to lay down arms and cease fire in a deal brokered by Russia.
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The African Union and East African regional bloc are asked to provide forces to oversee the cease-fire.
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Since the Taliban ended their cease-fire, attacks against Afghan security forces have been relentless and particularly deadly.
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However, a "permanent" cease-fire they signed was violated within hours of coming into effect on June 30.
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A previous cease-fire in the country, brought into force in 2015, has been tested repeatedly since Jan.
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A cease-fire took hold here in eastern Ukraine between Russian-backed separatists and the government on Sept.
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Fighting raged Friday on several fronts in Syria as combatants sought to gain advantage before the cease-fire.
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The violence came as Gaza&aposs militant Islamic Hamas rulers and Israel had been honoring a cease-fire.
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But he said attacks by the Nusra Front had obstructed the extension of the cease-fire to Aleppo.
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Almost 500 Turkish police officers and soldiers have been killed since the cease-fire ended, many by snipers.
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A partial cease-fire in Syria is coming under new strains, as the government holds parliamentary elections today.
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In truth, the lack of oversight on the current cease-fire framework provides useful cover for Azerbaijan's belligerence.
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A cease-fire was reached Tuesday, according to the Associated Press, to allow rebels and civilians to vacate.
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He insisted that it is Kiev, not Moscow, that has undermined the cease fire and stoked the conflict.
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A failure to reach a cease fire in the US-China trade war could lead to more tariffs.
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A successful cease-fire is first a humanitarian win because lives are saved during the lull in fighting.
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Using a cease-fire as a step toward a larger peace process supports U.S. and international security goals.
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Western officials have warned that a cease-fire that took effect in February is in danger of collapsing.
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The government says it is targeting only terrorist groups that are not part of the cease-fire deal.
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Russia and the United States failed at the meeting to broker a cease-fire in Syria's civil war.
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Op-Ed Contributor The announcement this month of a new cease-fire agreement in Syria is good news.
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The conference picked up on the previous government's partial success in securing a national cease-fire last year.
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The Islamist group Ahrar al-Sham said on Sunday that it would not accept the cease-fire terms.
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This also accomplishes a diplomatic goal for Russia: making itself crucial for any cease-fire or peace deal.
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Now, under a tentative cease-fire across Syria, people have more time to think about longer-term concerns.
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After less than a week, the partial cease-fire declared by Russia and the United States is fraying.
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Russia stopped short of initiating a full-fledged cease-fire, a step that Western governments have been demanding.
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If Putin is withdrawing forces to help promote that cease-fire, the Pentagon would "welcome that," he added.
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Secretary of State John Kerry's efforts to revive a cease-fire at the United Nations appeared to collapse.
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The Syrian cease-fire called for in an agreement by the U.S. and Russia had an uneven start.
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The airstrike came after the Syrian military had declared an end to a seven-day partial cease-fire.
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Sergei F. Rudskoi, a senior Russian Defense Ministry official, said the cease-fire would run from 10 a.m.
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Indian border guards say Pakistan "yet again blatantly" violated the 2003-cease-fire agreement and they are retaliating.
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As I cross a set of train tracks, a loud barrage of explosions breaches the temporary cease-fire.
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Everyone profits if the terms of the cease-fire are carried out, so everyone acts to enforce it.
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The US and Turkey had negotiated a temporary cease-fire in the region, which essentially capitulates to Turkey.
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But he said he'd had discussions with an adviser about options should a fragile cease-fire break down.
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"We hope cooler heads will prevail and the cease-fire of 2003 will be upheld," Mr. Abdullah said.
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The Obama administration announced on Monday that it was suspending bilateral talks with Russia on a cease-fire.
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The United States is suspending talks with Russia about Syria after failing to revive a cease-fire agreement.
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Before the American and Russian talks were suspended, a 72-hour cease-fire appeared to be under discussion.
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For the Americans, the cease-fire could create an opportunity to cooperate with Russia against the Islamic State.
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Hours before Russia and Turkey agreed to the cease-fire, he warned that nothing would come of it.
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We gathered in the streets and demanded a cease-fire, peace negotiations and the deployment of foreign peacekeepers.
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Eventually, as the court fight proceeded and the exhibit came and went, Mr. Giuliani called a cease-fire.
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The authorities in Kiev lay blame on the withdrawal of Russian officers from a cease-fire control group.
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Recently, the United States and Britain, Saudi Arabia's biggest arms suppliers, called for a cease-fire in Yemen.
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Turkey and Russia have agreed to a cease-fire in northwestern Syria to begin at midnight on Thursday.
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Israel has repeatedly urged Syria and all other parties in the area to respect the 1974 cease-fire.
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"In all my 27 years, this is the first time I experienced a cease-fire," Mr. Edris said.
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Another explanation for the cease-fire was evident in a new police report on militancy in south Kashmir.
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The cease-fire is to be followed by renewed peace negotiations to end the nearly six-year conflict.
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Early in the year, Russian-led separatists initiated the largest series of cease-fire violations since early 22016.
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" And Mr. Romney noted, "The cease-fire does not change the fact that America has abandoned an ally.
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And Turkey rejected his call for an immediate cease-fire in its fighting with Kurds in the region.
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The seven-day violence reduction being rolled out closely resembles a cease-fire, barring some exceptions, officials said.
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The fighting led to the collapse of a fragile cease-fire brokered by Turkey and Russia in 2018.
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The "cease-fire" is merely Turkey giving the Kurds five days to comply before re-engaging in war.
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In the statement Sunday, Ankara claimed Kurdish forces acted in violation of the cease-fire about 85033 times.
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A cease-fire signed more than six decades later, in 2012, has paved the way for peace talks.
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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that the agreement was not a "cease-fire" shortly after Pence spoke.
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Along with Iran, they pledged to expand a fragile cease-fire deal involving Syria's government and the opposition.
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The last time the Indian government declared a unilateral cease-fire in Kashmir was during Ramadan in 2000.
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A cease-fire in Kashmir, a divorce quiz in China, and the longest commercial flight in the world.
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Ambassadors for the alliance expressed "solidarity" with Turkey, condemned the strikes and called for a renewed cease-fire.
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"The conflict parties must also finally implement the long-agreed cease-fire," Ms. Merkel said in a statement.
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The situation in northeastern Syria is relatively stable at the moment, with Russia patrolling a cease-fire line.
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The one accomplishment of the meeting — a limited cease-fire in Syria — is exactly what Mr. Putin wanted.
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Rather than requiring a nationwide cease-fire, it calls for a reduction of violence in Kabul and Parwan.
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But Azerbaijan prefers duplicity: the current lack of cease-fire oversight provides useful cover for its war-mongering.
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Mr. Putin ordered the latest drawdown after a nationwide cease-fire in Syria took effect on Dec. 30.
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A second Palestinian official with knowledge of the talks said the cease-fire would begin at 2045 GMT.
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Madaya is an important test case both for the future of any peace talks on Syria and for the credibility of the United Nations because the town is involved in a local cease-fire deal that the United Nations brokered and promoted as a building block for a nationwide cease-fire.
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But cease-fire remains fragile in eastern Aleppo But cease-fire remains fragile in eastern Aleppo After some early setbacks, evacuations out of eastern Aleppo finally began Thursday morning, as the first convoy of buses and ambulances were confirmed to have left rebel-held areas of the besieged Syrian city.
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They arrived in Kabul after a three-day holiday cease-fire brought rare calm to most of the country.
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"I'm hopeful that this is a leverage moment that the administration uses to get a cease-fire," Murphy continued.
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They have set a March 2 deadline in their cease-fire for imposition of a new round of tariffs.
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But Israeli Cabinet minister Naftali Bennett told Israel's Army Radio that no cease-fire agreement has yet been reached.
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China and the U.S. agreed over the weekend to a 90-day cease-fire to their ongoing trade spat.
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Mujahid also told The AP the Taliban had no plans for any cease-fire beyond the earlier Eid truce.
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The S&P 500 on Monday jumped 1 percent on the Trump-Xi trade cease-fire, closing at 2,790.
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The Taliban have agreed to a three-day cease-fire to coincide with a Muslim holiday later this week.
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Ghani on Thursday, June 7, 2018 announced a weeklong cease-fire with the Taliban to coincide with the holiday.
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While President Donald Trump's economic advisor, Larry Kudlow, told reporters Monday that the cease-fire would start from Jan.
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Last month Kiir and Machar agreed on a "permanent" cease-fire that began Saturday and was violated within hours.
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The Taliban previously said they had offered him a 10-day cease-fire window to sign a peace agreement.
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President Trump said that Turkey had agreed to a permanent cease-fire, claiming that the U.S. was bringing peace.
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"Yes, they will have a cease-fire, but after Aleppo it is finished," he said in an online chat.
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Indian officials have called the violence a continuous violation of the cease-fire accord of 2003 between the rivals.
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It follows a string of intensified clashes in Aleppo this week after Russia's unilateral cease-fire ended Saturday night.
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Last month, the government called for a cease-fire due to an apparent 13 incidents of fighting between EAOs.
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Syria's civil war - now in its sixth year - was reignited last month after the breakdown of a cease-fire.
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A cease-fire and a disengagement agreement have largely held along the demarcation lines for the past four decades.
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If anyone could broker a provisional cease-fire between the Labour base and reality, it seemed to be he.
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After months of negotiation between Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, the cease-fire took effect Sept. 12.
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Both countries downed enemy jets on Wednesday, and each accused the other of breaching cease fire agreements on Thursday.
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The flare-up comes as Egypt is trying to broker a long-term cease-fire between the two sides.
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The Department also commended efforts by Turkey and Russia to restore the cease fire they agreed in September 2018.
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Nevertheless, by the time the United Nations brokered a cease-fire in 1991, Morocco controlled most of Western Sahara.
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He has seen you agree to a tariff cease-fire with the EU only to restart berating it again.
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Trump said Turkey had agreed to a "permanent" cease-fire in the region, though he expressed skepticism about it.
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The deal supersedes a so-called cease-fire agreement between the Trump administration and Erdogan that expired on Tuesday.
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In the run-up to the cease-fire deal, the government pushed for new gains, apparently with Russian support.
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The good news is that the two countries have agreed to a temporary cease fire in their trade battles.
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Fighting between the P.K.K. and state security forces resumed last year after the collapse of a fragile cease-fire.
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Internal conflict is exacerbating the chaos, with aid organizations calling for a cease-fire until the disease is contained.
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The cease-fire agreed to 18 months ago between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed separatists has been steadily eroding.
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He also pledged to continue working on a cease-fire up to the very end of the Obama administration.
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And in the Syrian city of Aleppo, few residents used Russia's brief unilateral cease-fire to escape the fighting.
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The special envoy, Staffan de Mistura, welcomed the cease-fire as an opportunity to bring medical relief to Aleppo.
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Editorial It was hard to greet the announcement last week of a new cease-fire in Syria without wariness.
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The Afghan government unilaterally declared a cease-fire to begin on Tuesday, to mark the last week of Ramadan.
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The cease-fire also showed that imagination and a quest for inclusion are more potent than bullets and bombs.
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And this despite a Security Council resolution last week calling for a cease-fire and access for humanitarian aid.
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Stocks dropped on Tuesday after a series of tweets from the president sowed confusion over the trade cease-fire.
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The details: The plan centers on a phased withdrawal of American troops in exchange for a Taliban cease-fire.
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In Yemen, the warring sides took a step toward peace: a cease-fire in the port city of Hudaydah.
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They planned joint communiqués and kept open the lines of communication to avoid any setbacks in the cease-fire.
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The civil war ended in a cease-fire, though more than 11,000 I.R.A. soldiers were imprisoned, including De Valera.
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Dara'a, whose cease-fire was reaffirmed by Presidents Trump and Putin in Vietnam in November, has been no different.
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Last month, Secretaries Pompeo and Mattis called for a cease-fire in Yemen and the start of peace negotiations.
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Despite calls from Defense Secretary Jim Mattis for a cease-fire, Saudi Arabia has stepped up its military operations.
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A cease-fire began today, but it was unclear whether President Bashar al-Assad of Syria would respect it.
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Putin spoke Thursday, as a Syrian cease-fire brokered by Russia and Turkey was set to begin at midnight.
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Last year, he rejected a cease-fire offer from the Maute group, which is leading the fight in Marawi.
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Former American diplomats, interviewed by Foreign Policy, raised similar concerns and doubted that Russia can guarantee the cease-fire.
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The Yemen war's fourth cease-fire began on April 10, and their offensive ground to a halt last year.
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After Azerbaijan attacked Nagorno-Karabakh in April, the two sides battled four days before agreeing to a cease-fire.
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The Turks and the Kurds appear to disagree on the size of the area covered by the cease-fire.
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According to monitors, in just this year alone, the cease-fire has been violated more than a thousand times.
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The cease-fire, struck Saturday in Qatar, is a consummate compromise, one that leaves all signatories bloodied and skeptical.
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Wednesday, saying it had agreed to return to the Egyptian-brokered cease-fire understandings that ended the 2014 war.
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Iran, which was not part of the deal, called on Monday for the cease-fire to be expanded nationwide.
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Mr. Khalilzad had proposed drawing down American military troops in exchange for a partial cease-fire by the Taliban.
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And so there's movement towards a peace agreement, you know, a peace accord, a cease-fire, which is great.
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Fighting in Libya resurged over the weekend, torching a cease-fire brokered by Russia and Turkey in early January.
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Approximately 12 more American service members were killed in Iraq and Kuwait by dud bomblets after the cease-fire.
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In October 2011, ETA declared a cease-fire but refused to surrender unconditionally and turn over all its weapons.
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Moscow has suggested that the cease-fire be followed by political discussions with select groups of the Syrian opposition.
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" In 2014, he wrote on Twitter, "Obama should work on a cease-fire in Chicago as well as Gaza.
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The cease-fire will begin Sunday at noon Damascus time, The Associated Press first reported Friday, citing U.S. officials.
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What's not inspirational about a young kid not being hit by rocket attacks because she negotiated a cease-fire?
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After some 16 years of war, the two sides signed a cease-fire and a de facto border emerged.
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How long would the cease-fire be, and would it start before, after or even during the American withdrawal?
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Instead, there is an armistice that acts as a cease-fire between military forces in the North and South.
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One of the marchers, Anwar Mazlomyar, said the group planned to ask the Taliban to accept a cease-fire.
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At gatherings in different cities, the activists repeatedly asked the Taliban for a cease-fire, always to no avail.
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The cease-fire, negotiated by Secretary of State John Kerry and Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov of Russia, calls for an extraordinarily high level of cooperation and intelligence sharing between the Russian and American militaries; that sharing would theoretically begin after seven days of the cease-fire period that started on Monday. Gen.
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The Turks, he said, no longer use artillery to strike their positions, because it leaves craters, and the American coalition troops based nearby arrive quickly to document such breaches of the cease-fire negotiated by the American and Turkish militaries, a cease-fire that has mostly held here for more than a year.
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Responsible for the deaths of more than 203 Spaniards, the Basque separatist group declared a unilateral cease-fire in 2011.
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He reiterated a call for all sides involved to "exercise restraint and immediately cease fire" to keep clashes from escalating.
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The government had offered to extend the cease-fire, but the Taliban announced Sunday that they would resume their attacks.
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A U.N. envoy arrived in the rebel-held capital, Sanaa, on Saturday in an effort to broker a cease-fire.
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"There is no such thing as a cease-fire that does not include the flaming kites and balloons," he said.
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Turkey agreed to the cease-fire in order to allow the Kurds to evacuate from a so-called safe zone.
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" He added, "I'm glad there is no fighting, you know, I think given the circumstance, a cease fire is good.
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While a shaky cease-fire has reduced violence in eastern Ukraine, a year-old peace accord still faces major obstacles.
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Truce, cessation of hostilities, cease-fire, armistice — these terms are often used interchangeably these days, as if they were synonyms.
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A cessation of hostilities is broader and more formal than a truce, but is not quite a cease-fire agreement.
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However, Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping called another tariff cease-fire last month and agreed to restart trade talks.
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The nationwide cease-fire in Syria comes after more than five years of warfare and as many as 500,000 deaths.
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The tensions escalated this month after President Donald Trump ended the cease-fire by slapping additional tariffs on Chinese goods.
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But a cease-fire and a suspension of US support for the Saudi bombing campaign are the most urgent priorities.
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A partial cease-fire crumbled and political negotiations broke down as government warplanes attacked a marketplace on Tuesday, killing dozens.
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With no system to referee the cease-fire, Azerbaijan has become increasingly belligerent while facing no consequences for its violations.
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And third, additional OSCE observers should be deployed along the line of contact to more effectively monitor cease-fire violations.
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An extension of the present cease-fire would signal the parties' intention to negotiate larger political grievances in good faith.
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Russia, which supports the Assad regime, is America's supposed partner in enforcing the cease-fire and pursuing a political solution.
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Speaking in Geneva, Mr. Kerry said the Americans and Russians would strengthen an office there that monitors the cease-fire.
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Fighting between the P.K.K. and the state security forces resumed last year after the collapse of a fragile cease-fire.
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The strike came shortly after the Syrian military announced that it regarded the seven-day partial cease-fire as over.
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Mr. Kiir's spokesman read a statement signed by the president calling for a unilateral cease-fire beginning at 6 p.m.
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Numerous violations of the cease-fire have been reported on both sides in recent months, including airstrikes in some areas.
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Pakistan said India committed 180 cease-fire violations in 2016, killing more than 27 civilians and wounding more than 100.
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But he did say that Russia would keep enough forces there to help enforce a cease-fire negotiated last month.
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In Ukraine, a cease-fire has been in place for over six months with few changes to the country's situation.
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Mattis, meanwhile, said on Monday the Pentagon will look at the cease-fire proposal to see if it can work.
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We are tired of the war and hope to have a real cease-fire that covers the whole of Syria.
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Separately, the Taliban announced a cease-fire to begin on Eid al-Fitr, the festival at the end of Ramadan.
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But even though a cease-fire that took effect last week appears to be holding, few believe it will last.
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That's because Twitter has announced a temporary cease-fire with Elliott Management, the "activist investor" fund that wanted Dorsey replaced.
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As the Syria war raged, a fragile cease-fire between Turkish and Kurdish forces unraveled, giving way to fresh fighting.
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Egypt, Qatar and the United Nations have been trying to broker a long-term cease fire between Hamas and Israel.
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Fighting persisted in eastern Ghouta, above, a rebel-held enclave near Damascus, despite a Russian declaration of a cease-fire.
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Mr. Khalilzad has been unable to persuade the Taliban to allow a cease-fire or talk to the Afghan government.
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Both sides immediately positioned the cease-fire as a domestic victory while staking out areas where they would not compromise.
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The partial truce was not a full cease-fire, something the intra-Afghan negotiations will now try to work out.
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On Sunday, the Houthis said they were prepared to put in place a cease-fire if the Saudis followed suit.
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The Trump administration has been prodded into demanding a cease-fire, but that seems only to have provoked new fighting.
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Saudi Arabia's two biggest arms suppliers, the U.S. and Britain, are increasing the pressure for a cease-fire in Yemen.
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Fighting persisted in eastern Ghouta, a rebel-held enclave near Damascus, above, despite a Russian declaration of a cease-fire.
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Inside the Nangarhar governor's palace, a meeting celebrating the cease-fire was attended by officials, local Taliban commanders, and civilians.
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Though no official cease-fire covers the area, it has been spared from Syrian and Russian airstrikes in recent months.
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Eventually, the two sides found a compromise: a significant "reduction in violence" that would not be called a cease-fire.
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Still — and this is almost painful to admit — under the current conditions, the cease-fire could be problematic for Israel.
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In meeting the Turkish leader, the vice president is expected to reiterate President Trump's demand for a negotiated cease-fire.
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Tensions between Trump and Republicans had shown signs of easing following the announcement of sanctions and the cease-fire efforts.
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The cease-fire, it said, is aimed at supporting a resumption of United Nations-backed negotiations between the warring parties.
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Negotiations have since resumed but have appeared to stall over wranglings between a cease-fire or a reduction of violence.
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"This is the right time for a cease-fire," said Bashir Ahmed Khanday, whose son, a militant, was recently killed.
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After a period of relative calm, following a cease-fire brokered late last year, tensions have escalated in recent months.
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The Delaware judge effectively declared a cease-fire in the war between the network and its controlling shareholder, Ms. Redstone.
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In fact, each side soon accused the other of breaking the cease-fire, amid reports of continuing fighting around Tripoli.
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While a deal appears far from certain, the two sides could still avert the increases and declare another cease-fire.
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A fragile cease-fire halted the government advance in late August, but it has been repeatedly violated in recent weeks.
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Seals, a 15-year veteran of the department, was a member of the Cease Fire Unit, per the unit's website.
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Thursday's cease-fire does not apply to terrorist groups in Syria such as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
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The following month, Morocco violated the cease-fire and sent forces to accompany the building of the road through Guerguerat.
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Saudi Arabia and Yemen agreed to a partial cease-fire Friday, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.
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Russia and Turkey, two of the dominant foreign powers in the area, had negotiated the cease-fire between the groups.
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Nicholson said he could not predict whether the Taliban will join the cease-fire announced this week by President Ashraf Ghani.
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The cease-fire was to end at the conclusion of the Eid holiday, which follows the monthlong fasting month of Ramadan.
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The Intergovernmental Authority on Development&aposs statement also decides to submit "punitive measures" against violators of December&aposs failed cease-fire.
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Libya's UN-backed Presidential Council issued a statement, urging both parties to cease fire while expressing deep regret for the victims.
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Wary observers inside and outside the country, including the warring sides, approached the latest cease-fire with cautious optimism at best.
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Initially, U.S. stocks rose after Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping announced a 90-day cease-fire in the trade war.
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Trump himself placed sanctions on Turkey, though he lifted them after a five-day cease-fire brokered by Vice President Pence.
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Trump announced earlier Wednesday that his administration would halt sanctions on Turkey after the country agreed to maintain the cease-fire.
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" Speaking in Vienna alongside Kerry, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov committed his country to working toward a "full cease-fire nationwide.
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So I know Secretary Kerry is working extremely hard to try to move that cease- fire up as quickly as possible.
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In essence, the rebels allowed Al-Qaeda back into the mainstream opposition by their own adherence to previous cease-fire agreements.
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Ryan Dillon says while talks are ongoing and clashes had temporarily ceased, an official cease-fire had not been declared Friday.
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Since the signing of a cease-fire agreement last year, Mr. Putin's government has tried to ease tensions with the West.
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Ag Ghali did not say how long the cease-fire would last or what he expected in return from Malian authorities.
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The award was highly criticized, not least because Kissinger had ordered a bombing raid of Hanoi while negotiating the cease-fire.
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The Obama administration's Syria policy has come under growing criticism since the latest attempt at a cease-fire all but collapsed.
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Broadly, though, he called Russian and American efforts to bring local groups of fighters into the cease-fire process a success.
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" The other side was responsible for breaches of the cease-fire, he said, adding, "We won't reach a deal with them.
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In a large green tent pitched in a ruined market, Syrian military officers signed a cease-fire agreement with village leaders.
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These recent military actions indicate the clear need for new measures to modify a cease-fire framework that is not working.
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There are only six OSCE observers monitoring the conflict zone — woefully insufficient given the number of cease-fire violations each day.
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The attack confirmed the apparent unraveling of a fragile cease-fire agreement between Syrian government forces and some armed opposition groups.
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"The statement by the Azerbaijan side is an information trap and does not amount to a unilateral cease-fire," he wrote.
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The United States and Russia had jointly imposed a cease-fire, but Kissinger secretly informed Israel that they could ignore it.
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But American officials said it was clear that the effort could fall apart, as did a cease-fire agreement in February.
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Despite pessimism over how long the cease-fire would last, calm was widely reported after it took effect at 7 p.m.
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Russian and Syrian forces have been bombarding rebel-controlled areas of Aleppo since an internationally brokered cease-fire collapsed last month.
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"In the current circumstances a unilateral cease-fire would be meaningless," General Rudskoi told a group of foreign and Russian journalists.
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The original cease-fire, which was put in place in August, was nullified when the peace agreement was rejected this month.
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The aim of the discussion was to build on momentum created by a recent three-day cease-fire, the newspaper reported.
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The Obama administration blamed Moscow while continuing to insist that a cease-fire, however unlikely, could still be made to work.
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A cease-fire had been called the night before, but many were still nervous about returning to their bullet-riddled homes.
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In June, the two sides announced a cease-fire and said that the rebels had agreed to lay down their arms.
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Ukraine has been battling Russian-backed separatists in the country's east since 2014, with fighting grinding on despite a cease-fire.
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The latest cease-fire, brokered by Mr. Putin with leaders of Ukraine, Germany and France, came into effect in February 2015.
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The Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, better known as FARC, agreed this week to a cease-fire.
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Russia and its mercenaries in the Donbas have failed to implement the cease-fire agreed in the February 2015 Minsk accords.
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Cease-fire talks between the United States and Russia, tormented though they may be, remain the best way to achieve this.
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For the first time in nearly four decades of fighting, the Afghan government announced a unilateral cease-fire for eight days.
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"Without doubt, after the cease-fire, the level of fighting has decreased and so has the number of attacks," he said.
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While a cease-fire was reached in September 2014, the agreement has been consistently disregarded, and fighting persists throughout the region.
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He and Mr. Ocalan can end this war, and they should agree on an immediate cease-fire inside Turkey and Syria.
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"Actually there is no cease-fire at all," Firas Abdullah, an anti-government activist in eastern Ghouta, said via internet chat.
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The Russian reports did not say when hostilities were supposed to cease or how long the cease-fire was to last.
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Read this article, and then consider: • Do you think this attempt at arranging a cease-fire in Yemen will be successful?
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Just hours after the fighting began, Hamas announced that Egyptian mediators had succeeded in brokering a new, albeit fragile, cease-fire.
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The easing was a first step in strengthening the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas that has eroded in recent months.
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If a cease-fire was implemented in Yemen, unconditionally and indefinitely, it would effectively consolidate the de facto partition of Yemen.
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A cease-fire announced by the Indian government last month for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan failed to catch hold.
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Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Taliban, said their announcement was not in response to the government's declaration of cease-fire.
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A bittersweet offering for the holidays, the show savors the cease-fire, a pacific impulse by the men in the trenches.
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Watch: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the vote would undermine the chances of a cease-fire agreement with Saudi Arabia.
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He tried to justify the latest cease-fire by hinting at broader considerations that he cannot elaborate on, for security reasons.
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Any cease fire between the United States and China will would be short-lived, El-Erian told CNN Business on Tuesday.
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The Afghan government, after long meetings of its own, decided to stick to earlier plans to extend a unilateral cease-fire.
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Both sides declared a cease-fire with the Islamic State on Sunday to allow for the recovery of the service members.
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For a few months there was a cease-fire and he found respite visiting Syrian friends in the countryside outside Aleppo.
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But as Mr. Putin and Mr. Erdogan met in Istanbul, European officials mounted their own effort to forge a cease-fire.
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"We're doing very, very well with Turkey," the president told reporters as Mr. Pence returned home, cease-fire agreement in hand.
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Trump&aposs envoy leading peace negotiations with the Taliban, Zalmay Khalilzad, has sought to pressure the Taliban into a cease-fire.
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But a previous cease-fire that those parties reached in Astana, without full agreement from the Syrian parties, quickly fell apart.
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And he discussed Syria with President Vladimir Putin of Russia by phone, agreeing to work together on a cease-fire deal.
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A cease-fire between the Syrian government and rebel groups tentatively took hold, with scattered reports of clashes, shelling and airstrikes.
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First, the cease-fire needs to hold so that a more enduring political solution to the Syria crisis can be pursued.
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Russia and Turkey have brokered a plan for a cease-fire in Syria, according to the Turkish state-run Anadolu Agency.
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On Wednesday, Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary Mike Pompeo flew to Ankara to press Mr. Erdogan into a cease-fire.
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It was the first time in 18 years that the Indian government declared a cease-fire for Ramadan in the territory.
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"In the absence of a peace dialogue accompanying it, I don't think that this cease-fire agreement will survive," he added.
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Last weekend, for the first time ever, a long-term cease-fire deal in America's longest-ever war went into effect.
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A cease-fire, first put forward by Turkey and Russia, stirred hopes for an end to the fight for Libya's capital.
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Over the years, the former junta had reached various more or less explicit cease-fire deals with some 40 armed groups.
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Turkey and Russia reached an agreement for a cease-fire earlier this month, but it has been broken several times already.
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Pence along with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo led the American delegation seeking to persuade Erdoğan to accept the cease-fire.
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For his part, Ghani said he hoped extensions could also be agreed upon to make the cease-fire last until Nov.
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Mr. Trump said the Taliban were interested in a cease-fire, but his remarks appeared to catch the militants off guard.
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Following the October plebiscite, the peace process was in a dangerous limbo, even though a bilateral cease-fire was already underway.
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A cease-fire in southwest Syria brokered by the U.S., Russia and Jordan took effect on Sunday at noon local time.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Russia said on Tuesday it was ready to keep working on implementation of the Syria cease-fire deal.
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When the Chinese joined the French to reach a cease-fire, Ho agreed that he could push his people no further.
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The Astana talks are the outcome of a Russian-brokered cease-fire throughout Syria that began at the end of December.
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Trust in a partial cease-fire agreement signed in 2015 and in various peace negotiations is at its lowest in years.
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Mr. Pompeo insisted on upholding the cease-fire and pullback of forces in the port city of Hudaydah, the embassy said.
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No militants broke the cease-fire except for the Islamic State in Khorasan Province, a local franchise of the Islamic State.
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The campaign ended with a cease-fire some 100 hours after the coalition had liberated Kuwait and advanced into Southeastern Iraq.
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But it appeared unlikely that they will get a better reception than the politicians in their pleas for a cease-fire.
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"After a cease-fire, there could be peace in the country, and we can make foreign forces leave Afghanistan," he said.
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"The rebels of Aleppo are interested only in a kind of cease-fire that allows them to bring in more arms and replenish ammunition," the daily Vedomosti quoted an unnamed source in the Russian Ministry of Defense as saying last weekend, in an effort to explain why a new cease-fire would be hard to reach.
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"They will close off all of Aleppo, destroy the whole area, and then the Russians will negotiate a cease-fire," he added.
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She says U.S. reports show that Assad&aposs forces and militias have violated the cease-fire with airstrikes, rocket attacks and artillery.
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S.-brokered cease-fire that has mostly held since late February, were to adjourn on Thursday — without having achieved any apparent breakthroughs.
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A "permanent" cease-fire the rivals agreed on last week was violated within hours on Saturday, with each side blaming the other.
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"The fight is still ongoing as I write," Gabriel said, calling on the U.N. peacekeeping mission and cease-fire monitors to investigate.
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Wary observers inside and outside the country, including the warring sides, have approached the latest cease-fire with cautious optimism at best.
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He also agreed, once the permanent cease-fire took place, to withdraw the sanctions that had been imposed on Turkey last week.
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And it has been the main focus of North Korea's external policy since the 1953 cease-fire in that still-unfinished conflict.
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Despite hopes that this planned effort would calm recent tensions, there were a reported 200 cease-fire violations on Tuesday night alone.
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While most agree that a cease-fire is the more likely outcome, at issue is whether Trump will delay imposing more tariffs.
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Afghan President Ashraf Ghani is said to be considering a cease-fire offer for the upcoming Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.
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During that downtime, diplomats, isolationists, and anti-war sorts would make lots of noise about settlements, cease-fire agreements, and so on.
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Recent peace efforts in the country have fallen short of a clear resolution, with the latest cease-fire effort crumbling last week.
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Trump's negotiations with Kim also came as China and the U.S. try to resolve their trade disputes under a tariff cease-fire.
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Turning that theoretically temporary cease-fire into a more formally agreed peace deal is one of the Moon government's long-term goals.
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But the sanctions were lifted a short time later after the U.S. and Turkey brokered a temporary cease-fire in northern Syria.
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That cease fire does not include counterterrorism efforts against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, al Qaeda and other terrorist groups.
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Peacekeeping forces from the United Nations have monitored the cease-fire since then, but efforts to reach a political settlement have failed.
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While far from putting in place a viable peace process, this cease-fire marks a turning point that should not be squandered.
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The Taliban, for their part, have offered to reciprocate with a three-day cease-fire with the government only, starting June 15.
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Even the increased access to humanitarian aid that was to have been a hallmark of the partial cease-fire has proved challenging.
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Trump on Wednesday characterized the cease-fire as a success, despite reports that it quickly fell apart and was never fully implemented.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — In rebel-held areas of Syria, Day 2 of a shaky cease-fire offered a rare chance to go outside.
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The Security Council session began with remarks by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who also exhorted diplomats to revive the cease-fire.
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"Assad will try to kill as much as possible before the claimed cease-fire," he said, referring to President Bashar al-Assad.
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The deal included a weeklong cease-fire, humanitarian aid deliveries and cooperation between the two militaries in targeting extremist organizations in Syria.
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It just took two hours of clashes to make me completely forget there is supposed to be a cease-fire in Syria.
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Obama's reticence has robbed Secretary of State John Kerry, who is valiantly trying to negotiate a lasting Syrian cease-fire, of leverage.
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A senior Syrian Kurdish official was critical Saturday of Washington&aposs lack of response to Turkey&aposs violations of the cease-fire.
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A permanent cease-fire took effect today in Colombia, ending 52 years of conflict that killed about 220,000 people and displaced millions.
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Hamas leaders announced on Saturday they've accepted a cease-fire with Israel, CBS reports; it's the second such agreement of the week.
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They didn't celebrate or experience joy this Eid because of the violent bombardment that neighborhoods were subjected to before the cease-fire.
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For evidence, see how he was able to string along the Obama administration over a plan for a cease-fire in Syria.
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The French resolution calls for the United Nations to return to the short-lived cease-fire, which the United Nations would monitor.
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The collapse of the cease-fire has prompted renewed calls in the United States for a "Plan B," including potential military action.
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This was a relatively quiet night — there has been a rare break in airstrikes with a unilateral cease-fire announced by Russia.
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The government was still shelling the region, he said, and he was relying on Turkish intervention to enforce the planned cease-fire.
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The celebration was brief, as the Taliban did not reciprocate our decision to extend the unilateral cease-fire for 10 more days.
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"Since the cease-fire, we have not had any martyrdom attacks in Kabul," he said, using the Taliban term for suicide bombings.
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John W. Nicholson, the commander of United States and NATO forces in Afghanistan, was instrumental in initiating last month's rare cease-fire.
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That's off the table now because of Russia's obstructionism, including a refusal to enforce even its own call for a cease-fire.
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The Taliban leadership had made it clear: During the cease-fire, no fighters should leave their rural strongholds to venture into cities.
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Though a cease-fire was reached in 1994, Azerbaijan and Armenia still regularly accuse each other of conducting attacks around Nagorno-Karabakh.
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It also means a cease-fire and pressure on all sides to ensure humanitarian access and the passage of food and fuel.
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Earlier in the month, members of the E.L.N. said they would not extend a short-lived cease-fire that expired this month.
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The cease-fire was a "glimmer of hope for the common people," he wrote, but there was much more ground to cover.
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The Myanmar Peace Center closed in 2016, and since then Mr. Min has led a task force monitoring the 2015 cease-fire.
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Although the Taliban statement did not acknowledge the government cease-fire, the moves by the two sides would overlap for three days.
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Mr. Abbas has demanded reconciliation between his ruling Fatah faction and Hamas before any cease-fire is reached between Israel and Gaza.
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The administration's Yemen cease-fire proposal appeared aimed at least in part at heading off congressional fury and preserving the Saudi relationship.
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Saturday's attack served as evidence that "the Taliban are not interested in a cease-fire," the AP notes per an Afghan analyst.
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A last-ditch scramble by the Afghan government on Sunday to persuade the Taliban to extend the brief cease-fire proved futile.
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Just how complicated the Afghan battlefield remains was demonstrated by two deadly attacks in eastern Nangarhar Province during the cease-fire period.
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It is also dependent on difficult negotiations between the Taliban and the Afghan government over power-sharing and a lasting cease-fire.
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He called on Moscow to persuade Syrian President Bashar Assad to withdraw to 2018 cease-fire lines on the edges of Idlib.
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"We have to give the joint cease-fire committee enough time to carry out the investigation" into the killings, General Sobejana said.
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And Lebanon achieved a withdrawal to the United Nations-defined border without granting Israel recognition, peace or even a cease-fire agreement.
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"I think overall the cease-fire generally seems to be holding," Mr. Esper said, according to a Reuters correspondent traveling with him.
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Pence and Pompeo are traveling to Turkey to meet with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the hope of brokering a cease-fire.
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While both Risch and Graham said they would continue working on their bills, they said the cease-fire was a positive development.
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But then in 2011, a cease-fire broke down, and the army occupied the valley while the K.I.A. locked down the highlands.
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The first goal for the U.S. is to encourage the Taliban to reduce violence, and ultimately agree to a permanent cease fire.
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After the vote, many council members urged stepped-up efforts to ensure a cease-fire and get assistance to millions in need.
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The Afghan government wants a cease-fire, and the Taliban has scaled back some attacks — but only on cities and main roads.
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American negotiators had insisted on a decline in hostilities — though not a complete cease-fire — before signing an agreement with the Taliban.
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International media outlets have reported that a cease-fire is imminent, citing unnamed sources after Taliban leaders held several meetings in Pakistan.
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That agreement called for a cease-fire, pullback of heavy weaponry and return of the Ukraine-Russia border back to Ukrainian control.
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During a cease-fire that preceded the festivities in Rufaro stadium, I had sent my reports from remote bushlands by carrier pigeon.
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Ideally, the Taliban would agree to a mutual cease-fire that eases the suffering of Afghans in both urban and rural areas.
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U.S. peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad has been pressing the insurgents to agree to a cease-fire or at least reduce violent attacks.
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Changes on the ground in Syria have given credence to the possibility of cease-fire zones as outlined in the Russian proposal.
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One Taliban official said that now the United States is seeking something closer to a cease-fire, which it hadn't demanded earlier.
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On Tuesday, Russia and Turkey brokered a cease-fire that was supposed to allow thousands of civilians and fighters to leave Aleppo.
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Should the cease-fire collapse, the Assad government would still be able to crush the remnants of the rebellion with Russian cover.
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Mr. Putin's argument that the resolution interfered with cease-fire negotiations between the Syrian government and the rebels was also not credible.
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It was started just after the cease-fire, when hopes were high that the conflict's tens of thousands of refugees would return.
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Burns: It's difficult because the United States is trying to convince the Taliban to agree to a cease-fire to reduce violence.
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O.S.C.E. observers, who record explosions and gunshots near the front, had counted 16,000 cease-fire violations over a weeklong period this month.
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After a series of posts on Twitter and Instagram directed at each other, the two agreed on a cease-fire in October.
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From 1948 to 1967, Jerusalem was divided by the Green Line, which is the cease-fire line of 1948 between Israel and Jordan.
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Recently, the Houthis offered to have the United Nations manage Hodeida&aposs port, pending an "overall cease-fire" in the rebel-held city.
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Over the weekend, Trump struck a cease-fire on trade with President Xi Jinping of China at the G-20 summit in Argentina.
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The three-month cease-fire in the trade war should offer a reprieve for United States companies that produce and sell in China.
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U.S. government debt yields slipped Monday after gaining overnight as investors digested the trade cease-fire brokered between the United States and China.
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He particularly hailed the U.S.-Russian deal on a cease-fire in southwestern Syria announced Friday as a step toward ending the hostilities.
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KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has announced a cease-fire with the Taliban to begin next Tuesday and last for a week.
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The apparent attack on Baghdadi came days after Trump announced that Turkey agreed to a cease-fire against Kurdish forces in northern Syria.
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A cease-fire between Turkey and the Kurds, which aided the U.S. in the fight against ISIS, is expected to end on Tuesday.
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Even if the current cease-fire holds, the Australian government has said it is still far too risky to consider getting them out.
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As he has already clearly demonstrated in Ukraine, a cease-fire to him is a tactic, even a smoke screen, not a goal.
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At moments during a nearly hourlong news conference, Mr. Kerry and Mr. Lavrov used the phrase "cessation of hostilities" and "cease-fire" interchangeably.
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Drone footage shows convoys of busses and ambulances attempting to transport people out of the rebel-held area during a fragile cease-fire.
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Blinken sought to reassure committee members that the administration is looking for new options in the event a cease-fire is not restored.
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It said a peace process in Kazakhstan's capital of Astana would go ahead under Russia and Turkey's leadership if the cease-fire holds.
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So I think part of why we're -- and again, we -- we'll see what happens, as to the ability to hold the cease-fire.
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QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, you spoke, when you were (inaudible) the cease-fire, about there being detailed information of how to reinforce it (ph).
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"We don't have agreement on anything right now except that there needs to be a cease-fire," a senior State Department official said.
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The Korean Peninsula is still technically in a state of war because the fighting ended with a cease-fire, not a peace treaty.
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While rebels have repeatedly said they would never abandon Aleppo, Reuters reports that they have called for an immediate five-day cease-fire.
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International leaders have called for an immediate cease-fire to get humanitarian aid to the thousands of civilians still living in the area.
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But Syrian state television quoted the Syrian Army Command as saying that a cease-fire would apply in Aleppo starting at 1 a.m.
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A senior U.S. official also told the newspaper that the U.S. has made a cease-fire in Afghanistan part of any final agreement.
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Sergei Kurylenko, head of the Russian coordination center in Syria, as saying only that talks about a cease-fire for Aleppo were continuing.
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The administration recently removed sanctions placed on Turkey after it agreed to a Russian-brokered cease-fire agreement with U.S.-allied Kurdish forces.
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Mr. Lavrov and, later in Washington, Mr. Kerry expressed hope that their two countries were on the verge of a cease-fire agreement.
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The US has also said that once a permanent cease-fire is established, sanctions that were recently put in place would be lifted.
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Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Erdoğan and negotiated a so-called cease-fire with the country.
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Yet virtually all Syrians would welcome a respite from fighting and bombing, as was provided under a short-lived cease-fire in February.
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Under the cease-fire deal, during an initial period, all attacks are to stop except Syrian government attacks on those two jihadist groups.
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Minutes after the Syrian military declared the cease-fire over around sunset, aerial attacks began pummeling insurgent-occupied neighborhoods of Aleppo, residents reported.
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Following the bitter partisan meltdown over Judge Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination, both parties need to step back and implement a cease-fire.
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The memo pressed for American military strikes against Mr. Assad's government to stop what it said were persistent violations of the cease-fire.
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While the cease-fire has been marred by regular violations on both sides, it has partly tamped down the fighting in recent months.
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Virtually every other day, the two countries accuse each other of cease-fire violations, unprovoked gunfire and the killing of civilians and soldiers.
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No sooner had an impending cease-fire been announced in Munich than Russian jets carpet-bombed (yes, I use that term consciously) Aleppo.
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It ended with an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire with Hamas, the militant group that controls Gaza, and without a decisive victory for Israel.
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Fighting in Aleppo over the past week shattered a respite created by the cease-fire that had prevailed for the past two months.
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But such deaths have been rare since a cease-fire ended the fighting in 2014, and the Gaza Strip had remained largely quiet.
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Per Al Jazeera, no humanitarian aid has been allowed into the area, despite that being the purpose of the 30-day cease-fire.
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There were no reports of further attacks after Hamas announced early on Wednesday that it would cease fire if Israel did the same.
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Though the current cease-fire is holding — the WHO said evacuations were "going smoothly" — concerns that fighting could resume at any moment remain.
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UN representative Jan Egeland stressed the importance of acting on the current opportunity to get civilians out while the cease-fire remained intact.
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He often operates around the clock and does not expect the cease-fire deal to change that, he said in a text message.
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Though the cease-fire talks have been suspended, talks meant to ensure the safety of pilots from both countries will continue, Kirby added.
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For Mr. Assad's government, the cease-fire is an implicit acknowledgment that it lacks the military might to take back all of Syria.
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During the cease-fire, I met with a group of peace activists from Helmand who had walked more than 400 miles to Kabul.
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They said the agreement included a cease-fire that would come into force in Idlib, the last stronghold of Syrian rebels, at midnight.
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The group has repeatedly carried out suicide bombings against nonmilitary targets, and it has continued to do so after the cease-fire ended.
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United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said Monday that the world should declare a global cease-fire to focus on the coronavirus pandemic.
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The United Nations Security Council endorsed a 30-day cease-fire for the region nearly a month ago, but attacks have continued unabated.
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Yesterday: The cease-fire appeared to hold after fighting that killed at least 22 Palestinians, including militants and children, and four Israeli civilians.
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Zalmay Khalilzad, the American peace envoy at the Doha talks, has said that one of his goals is a permanent, comprehensive cease-fire.
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The Arab participants in the talks proposed a three-month cease-fire during which all substantial issues would be discussed, Mr. Khalilzad said.
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The two sides discussed the possibility of a cease-fire last week, which the Taliban representatives said they would take to their leadership.
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Finally, he opposed the cease-fire with Hamas, arguing that it would undermine Israel's deterrence and endanger its security in the long run.
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Syria: Amid a cease-fire in the northern province of Idlib, some of the hundreds of thousands of displaced residents are trickling back.
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Numerous efforts to forge a cease-fire have crumbled, mostly recently in September, when a Houthi delegation failed to turn up in Geneva.
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Mr. Pompeo's call late last month for a cease-fire in Yemen, where a humanitarian disaster is intensifying, has so far been ignored.
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When the Taliban assaulted a major city just 90 miles from Kabul, it put the fate of a second cease-fire in limbo.
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Many American military officers advising Afghan units were also caught by surprise, hearing of the cease-fire only hours before it was announced.
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Senior members of the Afghan government did not know of plans for a cease-fire until a couple days before they were announced.
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The cease-fire talks had appeared to show meaningful progress in recent days before the turn of events that led to Monday's fighting.
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In the movie, as in the play that inspired it, women impose a sex strike to pressure their men into a cease-fire.
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On Tuesday, Cuomo and Trump agreed to work together to fight the coronavirus pandemic, reaching a cease-fire in their war of words.
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The friction had already led to two recent bursts of conflict, which ended with hurried efforts by Egypt to restore the cease-fire.
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According to the defense officials, they also expressed their backing of the Afghan peace process following the recent cease-fire in the country.
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After that, a permanent cease-fire would take place and, in return, the Trump administration would agree to drop sanctions announced last week.
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The Utah Republican excoriated the administration Thursday after Trump announced a five-day cease-fire between Turkey and Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria.
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The president declared the deal an "amazing outcome" even as many questions remain about the terms and Ankara's commitment to a cease-fire.
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The Afghan government wants a monthlong cease-fire, and the Taliban has scaled back some attacks — but only on cities and main roads.
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The Syrian Kurds raised further uncertainty over a cease-fire deal that already was vague on key points and left significant questions unanswered.
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One Pakistan-based group that operates in Kashmir, Lashkar-e-Taiba, ridiculed the cease-fire as a "sin" and vowed to continue attacks.
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In recent weeks, Taliban officials and American diplomats had neared announcing some form of a cease-fire across Afghanistan, albeit a brief one.
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The Afghan government, so far excluded from the talks, has asked the United States to agree to nothing but an extensive cease-fire.
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His most recent assignment was to a citywide Cease Fire unit, which concentrates on reducing shootings and making gun arrests in Jersey City.
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He said there was no path to resolving the Ukraine situation outside of the cease-fire agreements reached in 2015 in Minsk, Belarus.
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The agreement, and an accompanying cease-fire, has proceeded haltingly since it began on Wednesday, with gunfire on the route repeatedly stopping convoys.
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While the cease-fire appears to be holding there, the formerly rebel-held eastern quarters are abandoned wastelands, United Nations relief officials said.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The Islamic Jihad militant group early Thursday announced a cease-fire ending two days of heavy fighting with Israel.
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Azerbaijan attacked across the eastern border in the small hours of April 2, breaking a cease-fire that had largely held since 1994.
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Although not legally binding, the resolution could raise tensions with Russia just as the U.S. is bent on maintaining the cease-fire. Rep.
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Missouri and Kansas, for example, are talking about a "cease-fire" to keep local companies from playing the two states off each other.
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If the cease-fire holds, peace talks between Syria's government and the opposition will be held in mid-January in Astana, Kazakhstan's capital.
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War is beautiful because it combines the gunfire, the cannonades, the cease-fire, the scents, and the stench of putrefaction into a symphony.
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Though Trump has hailed the cease-fire agreement as a victory, it actually capitulates to Turkey's demands in exchange for virtually nothing for the US.The cease-fire has seen Kurdish units withdraw from the Syria-Turkey border, which is allowing Turkey to consolidate its control in the region and rid the area of Kurds — exactly what Erdogan wanted in the first place.
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Russia accused the United States and its allies of a bait-and-switch, and the Arab League called for a cease-fire and settlement.
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A spokesman says the U.N. is "deeply concerned" about the safety of an estimated 750,000 people in southern Syria amid an unraveling cease-fire.
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U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to a temporary cease-fire in December, putting the bilateral trade war on hold.
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In December, Washington and Beijing agreed to a cease-fire in the trade war and promised to stop adding trade tariffs for 90 days.
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The Taliban announced the upcoming cease-fire on Saturday, saying they would continue to defend themselves if attacked and would continue targeting foreign forces.
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The government cease-fire will begin on June 12 and last through Eid al-Fitr holiday, June 19, not including al Qaida or ISIS.
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During the cease-fire, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said they will intensify combat against the Islamic State affiliate and al Qaida in the region.
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London (CNN Business)Stocks and oil prices shot higher Monday after the United States and China announced a cease fire in their trade war.
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It said negotiations aimed to reach a cease-fire as well as have rebels hand over their heavy weapons then later their light weapons.
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" To take the political process forward, he said, "we need a nationwide cease-fire and this is the opportunity to work seriously on that.
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Syria: Turkish forces appeared to have clashed with the Syrian Army and the Kurdish-led militia in northeastern Syria, apparently violating a cease-fire.
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The feud escalated to sexual harassment allegations against Charles, but finally ended with a cease-fire in May through a heartbroken Notes app screenshot.
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But Mr. Kerry acknowledged the first was more temporary, and "a cease-fire is more permanent," a recognized series of steps in international law.
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The agreement on a cease-fire, though, is something that has to be implemented more quickly than the schedule that the Russians agreed to.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis both separately called for a cease-fire in Yemen's civil war on Tuesday night.
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The decision to begin withdrawing forces from Syria was made as part of cease-fire negotiations led by Turkey and Russia late last month.
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However, the deal did not seem to address the deeper issues that have prevented the bitter enemies from reaching a longer cease-fire arrangement.
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And he should push for a cease-fire that restrains the UAE from going ahead with its proposed attack on the port of Hodeida.
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Despite a relative calm in Syria, there were reports of cease-fire violations shortly after it took effect, according to The New York Times.
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More than 30 cases of sexual assault were recorded in Yei and surrounding areas in the three months following December&aposs cease-fire agreement.
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The call for a war crimes investigation comes after Kerry officially suspended negotiations with Russia over implementing a cease-fire in Syria on Monday.
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Georgia then effectively denied both regions' independence and ran an economic blockade, followed by open violence, guerilla-style resistance, and some cease fire agreements.
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The U.N. mission to Libya called for a two-hour cease-fire on Sunday in parts of Tripoli to evacuate civilians and the wounded.
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"The truce was a mistake," he said, referring to the crumbling cease-fire, as he surveyed a room strewn with dust and broken masonry.
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It is now violating that agreement; violence between Ukrainian and Russian-backed separatist forces has reached its highest level since a 2015 cease-fire.
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Haley further accused Russia of creating "a catastrophe of suffering," by supporting separatist groups and violating its obligations under an international cease fire agreement.
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At the same time, he said, the region is home to insurgent groups that oppose Mr. Assad and have agreed to the cease-fire.
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Violations are likely, but the parties should adhere to their own commitments to get the benefit of a cease-fire toward ending a conflict.
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"But at the same time we will observe the cease-fire, and after that we will try to solve the conflict peacefully," he said.
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Few expected the cease-fire, which was brokered two months ago by the United States and Russia, to last as long as it did.
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The cease-fire negotiated between Russia and the United States was supposed to allow for delivery of aid to the divided city of Aleppo.
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In many such places, the cease-fire has a smaller upside: The residents have not been living under airstrikes, because the rebels lack planes.
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Mr. Kerry, who finished the cease-fire negotiation in Geneva with Russia's foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, said some breaches would not surprise him.
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A few hours later, he added: It seems that machine guns, snipers, tank bombs and many weapons are not included in the cease-fire.
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The convoy was among the first to try to deliver humanitarian aid to these areas, a relief plan permitted under the cease-fire agreement.
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So we had better hope this cease-fire lasts beyond Trump's next tweetstorm, because it's about as good as things are going to get.
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The Taliban have rejected calls for a cease-fire as they hold talks with the United States aimed at ending the 18-year war.
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He met with the leaders of Germany, France and Ukraine to discuss a cease-fire in eastern Ukraine, the only active war in Europe.
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Today, Ukraine remains divided and in distress, as a shaky cease-fire with Russian-backed separatists and Russia threatens to further destabilize the country.
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Op-Ed Contributors The cease-fire in Syria that the United States and Russia tortuously negotiated has, like the one before it, fallen apart.
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With no official documentation publicly available, latest cease-fire negotiated by the US and Russia has been criticized as unusually vague, nontransparent, and weak.
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The cease-fire developed last week after Russian, Iranian and Turkish officials agreed in Moscow to halt the fighting and broker a peace deal.
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The spokesman for the Afghan High Peace Council, Sayed Ihsan Taheri, said the cease-fire was an important first step toward real peace talks.
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The strikes began well before the end of the five-hour daily cease-fire window that Russia, the Syrian government's main ally, has promised.
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Each has ended quickly in a cease-fire, usually brokered by Egypt and seen as evidence that neither side wants a full-fledged war.
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Signs of that divide emerged during a rare cease-fire last year, where some Taliban fighters openly disobeyed the limitations set by their leaders.
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Russia's foreign ministry said Tuesday that the Syrian government was holding talks with opposition forces to sound them out about a potential cease-fire.
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He told Tolo News there would be no agreement without a permanent cease-fire and a commitment by all sides to end the war.
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Warring sides of the brutal civil war took their biggest step yet toward peace: a cease-fire in the key port city of Hudaydah.
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Now, an on-again, off-again cease-fire is once more being embraced by both Israel and Hamas, the militant group that controls Gaza.
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But optimism was tempered by doubts that the fragile cease-fire would put the dispute between the world's two largest economies to rest permanently.
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Still to be hashed out are a cease-fire and the composition of a new Afghan government, which would almost certainly include the Taliban.
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Saudi Foreign Minister Abel al-Jubeir told reporters Monday that he is prepared to support a cease-fire if the Houthi groups also agree.
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But Mr. Ghani was already facing political opposition to another such cease-fire, and the scenes from Ghazni were unlikely to help his cause.
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"Fighting is ongoing in 15 provinces, and the Afghan president announces the cease-fire," said Atiqullah Amarkhel, a retired Afghan general and military analyst.
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"The fight is still ongoing as I write," Mr. Gabriel said, calling on the United Nations peacekeeping mission and cease-fire monitors to investigate.
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The moves left many in the country expressing hope that the Taliban and the government would join a cease-fire and hold peace talks.
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A cease-fire between the Myanmar military and the Kachin Independence Army, the main ethnic guerrilla force in Kachin State, fell apart in 2011.
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As the fighting escalated, the United Nations special envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, landed in Sana in an effort to broker a cease-fire.
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He also reaffirmed his support for a new cease-fire, and urged the Kremlin to withdraw its troops and to stop supplying the separatists.
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On Monday night, Vice President Mike Pence said that Mr. Trump had called President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and urged a cease-fire.
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CNBC's Wilfred Frost in an interview with Pompeo addressed the recent U.S.-brokered cease-fire in Syria that Ankara had agreed to last week.
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Vice President Pence announced a cease-fire between Turkish and Kurdish forces on Thursday, although numerous skirmishes have been reported in the region since.
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Once the permanent cease-fire is in effect, the U.S. sanctions imposed Monday in retaliation for the country's incursion will be withdrawn, he said.
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Putin will promise to force Assad into a cease-fire in line with opposition demands, prompting the administration to begin lifting lower-tier sanctions.
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But their effort to broker a cease-fire in Moscow this week ended Monday when Mr. Hifter walked out, refusing to sign the agreement.
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The end of the cease-fire and the resumption of weapons shipments are grave blows to the United Nations' attempts to resolve the conflict.
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The president said stalled talks with the militant group were back on and called for a cease-fire — something his negotiators had deemed unrealistic.
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The Taliban see a cease-fire before the signing of a deal for the end of the American military presence as an existential issue.
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The U.S. and Russia are vowing to redouble their efforts to hold together a nationwide cease-fire between warring parties in Syria's civil war.
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The town of Ras al-Ayn was emerging as an immediate test for the five-day cease-fire agreed on by Washington and Ankara.
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One difference this time: India has been observing a rare cease-fire for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which ends in mid-June.
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And that prospect makes Mr. Sessions's allies nervous because of the ample time it would allow the president to call off his cease-fire.
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Any final deal would also include direct negotiations between the Taliban and the Afghan government and a comprehensive cease-fire, Mr. Khalilzad has said.
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Any final deal would also include direct negotiations between the Taliban and the Afghan government and a comprehensive cease-fire, Mr. Khalilzad has said.
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Instead, the United States and Russia have been discussing cease-fire zones in the country, the first of which went into effect this month.
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Not the cease-fire, that is: He wanted an acknowledgment that the United States and Russia are equal negotiating parties in the Syrian conflict.
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And there's always the chance that the apparent cease-fire in the trade war ends in a flurry of presidential tweets announcing new tariffs.
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Fighting continued in northern Syria Friday morning despite a five-day cease-fire deal between the United States and Turkey announced the day before.
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Ten days earlier, President Juvenal Habyarimana's plane was shot down, ending the cease-fire in Rwanda's civil war and igniting 100 days of slaughter.
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The Taliban is expected to continue to ratchet up attacks around the country and have refused to discuss a cease-fire with Afghan officials.
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Kerry is pushing for a cease-fire in Syria in order to get the process back on track when talks resume on Feb. 25.
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Under the new cease-fire agreement, Russia is supposed to guarantee compliance by the Syrian government, while Turkey does the same for the opposition.
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The Taliban is expected to ratchet up attacks around the country now that negotiations have failed and have refused to discuss a cease-fire.
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He expressed the demand of the Afghan government for a cease-fire as a condition for peace talks, a major shift in American policy.
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Trump has also dispatched Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to meet with Erdogan to help broker a cease-fire.
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The deal could lead to a full pullout of American troops in return for a cease-fire and Taliban talks with the Afghan government.
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The cease-fire came after a backlash against Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross's suggestion that furloughed workers take out personal loans to cover their bills.
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For starters, the Saudis could fully lift the blockade and challenge the Houthis and the Iranians to join in an immediate unconditional cease-fire.
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Subsequent talks with Afghan political figures in Moscow led only to a repeated rejection by the Taliban of government offers of a cease-fire.
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KABUL, Afghanistan — For almost a year, Taliban leaders in Afghanistan have consistently rejected calls for a cease-fire by officials working to negotiate peace.
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There was no formal comment from Israel, but an Israeli official who spoke on condition of anonymity denied a cease-fire had been reached.
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Given what is happening inside Syria, it is hard to believe anyone is really ready to talk peace, or even a short-term cease-fire.
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A cease-fire with Pakistan has been in place since 2003, but soldiers live in constant danger of frostbite, oxygen deprivation, hidden crevasses and avalanches.
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Hamas says it reached a cease-fire through mediators, while Israel said it would halt its strikes as long as there was no rocket fire.
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The council appealed on both the Afghan government forces and the Taliban and other militants to halt the fighting and agree on a cease-fire.
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The nuclear-armed nations had recently agreed to stop trading fire along the volatile frontier and uphold a cease-fire accord dating back 15 years.
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It also claimed the rebels had violated the cease-fire by trying to take captives out of the rebel held area, the Associated Press reported.
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Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed on Saturday to the trade cease-fire on no new tariffs on each other's goods as negotiations continue.
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Multiple attempts at peace have failed, and the latest cease-fire in December was violated within hours, to the growing frustration of the international community.
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New York Giants owner John Mara is ready for Odell Beckham Jr. to start making headlines on the field and cease fire behind the microphone.
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The answer isn't fully clear, although Pang himself tried to take a crack at calling a cease-fire while at the Tribune back in 2011.
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The development marks the first concrete step since a fragile U.N. cease-fire agreement was brokered between the war-ravaged nation's rival parties last December.
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Mr. Mohib would not be drawn on that idea, but said that broader discussions involving a cease-fire and prisoner swaps had taken place before.
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Under an agreement announced by Vice President Pence last week, the administration said it would not apply further sanctions during a five-day cease-fire.
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Some are expressing an ambitious hope: that when the two Afghan sides do begin talks, they will agree on a formal cease-fire right away.
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" He said the announcement of a permanent cease-fire "validates our course of action with Turkey that only a couple of weeks ago was scorned.
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But the cease-fire would be partial because it excludes the Islamic State and the Nusra Front, which the U.N. has designated as terrorist groups.
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The cease-fire could include a commitment to not escalate trade and technology/investment-related tensions further, with the main structural issues being left unresolved.
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Hamas has largely enforced the cease-fire, but some smaller groups, waging their own battles with the militant group, have occasionally tried to undermine it.
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The agreement would require the Taliban to start negotiating a peace deal with the Afghan government, including a cease-fire and renunciation of al-Qaeda.
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Syrian rebels have said that they will not attend the summit, alleging that the Assad regime has already broken the terms of the cease-fire.
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But the chaos soon intensified after President Donald Trump surprisingly ended the cease-fire with China and planned additional tariffs, sending the VIX even higher.
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The last cease-fire only gave them time to regroup and get more ammunition and arms, in order to hit us even harder than before.
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A devastating war in the summer of 2014 lasted 50 days and ended with a fragile cease-fire that has since been broken many times.
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Thousands of jobs have been lost, and investors who flocked to the city during the cease-fire — when new hotels were being built — have fled.
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In addition to a cease-fire, the rebels — known as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or the FARC — agreed to lay down their arms.
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American diplomats are scrambling to secure a new cease-fire agreement in Syria this week, following days of fighting that fractured a two-month truce.
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The Colombian government and FARC rebels said they had agreed to a cease-fire at talks in Havana and would hold a ceremony on Thursday.
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A frenzied escalation of violence over the last few days is threatening a nationwide cease-fire that was supposed to build confidence for the talks.
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If a cease-fire does not take hold, the greater risk for Israelis and Palestinians is that Islamic Jihad's continued fighting draws Hamas into battle.
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Farmers should get some relief from the June 30 cease-fire between the U.S. and China that has stopped additional tariffs on Chinese goods indefinitely.
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Trump early this month abruptly ended the cease-fire with China by threatening to slap duties on $300 billion of Chinese goods from Sept. 1.
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Representatives will meet this weekend in Switzerland for the first time since talks broke off last week over the collapse of a cease-fire agreement.
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Trump agreed at the Group of 20 summit last month to a cease-fire on imposing additional tariffs as talks play out in the meantime.
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The sputtering negotiations over a cease-fire include a Russian proposal for civilians to leave the area; residents fear they will never be allowed back.
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"Going forward, the biggest problem will be whether the military leadership accepts the cease-fire or not," said Edmund Yakani, a prominent civil society leader.
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The unarmed monitors, mostly European diplomats seconded to the mission, are empowered to listen for cease-fire violations, escort humanitarian aid and negotiate local truces.
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About two-thirds of these deaths are likely the result of Saudi-led coalition airstrikes, which appear to be continuing despite recent cease-fire agreements.
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Secretary of State John Kerry acknowledged that argument during his ultimately failed effort to reach a deal for a cease-fire and an ultimate settlement.
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A partial cease-fire that started on Monday continues to steadily unravel after it was declared with much fanfare by the United States and Russia.
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The statement comes as a separate local cease-fire governing the contested city of Aleppo is ending, raising fears of a new round of violence.
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The Kachin Independence Army and the United Wa State Army, the largest ethnic army in Myanmar, refused to sign a cease-fire agreement last year.
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Hours later, Secretary of State John Kerry said that he had exchanged ideas to restore the cease-fire with his Russian counterpart, Sergey V. Lavrov.
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Although previous attempts at a cease-fire and peace talks have failed, the mediator, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, said he was more optimistic this time.
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The southeast has been scorched by violence since the collapse last July of a cease-fire between the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party and the government.
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The convoy was the first attempt to help desperate civilians under a weeklong cease-fire negotiated by Russia and the United States that quickly collapsed.
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Then last spring, I agreed to exhibit my paintings at a show in Los Angeles; at the time there was a cease-fire in Syria.
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Indeed, the cease-fire doesn't cover attacks on the Islamic militants of the Qaeda-allied Nusra Front or Daesh, another name for the Islamic State.
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The attack exacerbated the collapse of a U.S.-Russia brokered cease-fire that culminated Monday when Washington officially broke off talks with Moscow about Syria.
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The Taliban also agreed to enter intra-Afghan talks, including with government representatives, by March 10, to discuss a cease-fire and future political settlement.
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The bloodshed quickly dashed hopes of a prolonged cease-fire or a further reduction in violence after a weeklong drop in episodes across the country.
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We're covering a coronavirus surge in Europe and the U.S., a fragile cease-fire in northern Syria and the end of Elizabeth Warren's presidential campaign.
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At the close of the jirga on Friday, Mr. Ghani accepted its recommendation to seek a cease-fire, a goal of the Doha peace negotiations.
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A strained stability had held in the area since September under a cease-fire deal between Russia and Turkey, which borders Idlib to the north.
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Mr. Hokayem said the Turkey-Russia cease-fire had benefited the Syrian government by taking the world's focus off Idlib and eroding the rebels' cohesion.
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Complicating matters: The terms of the cease-fire are not written and made public, leaving each side to fault the other, with little public accountability.
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A significantly weakened E.T.A. eventually announced a cease-fire in 2011, but the group is yet to formally disband, as demanded by the Spanish government.
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Both President Trump and the Chinese government claimed the cease-fire as a success, but little is known about the deal beyond vague official statements.
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In November, Israel agreed to loosen the restrictions, and today's cease-fire reportedly includes measures to ease the acute economic crisis in the Gaza Strip.
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Officials said the cease-fire applied only to the Taliban and their brutal arm, the Haqqani network, which is behind some of the deadliest attacks.
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Mr. Osman said the Taliban would closely watch how the cease-fire unfolds to see whether Mr. Ghani has full control over his forces. Gen.
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Only six were aware of the cease-fire when reached about an hour after the announcement, and they said they had heard it on television.
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President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan proposed a conditional cease-fire with the Taliban, extending a trust-building measure to the insurgents before Eid al-Adha.
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There were new reports of a suspected chlorine attack, despite a U.N. Security Council resolution on Saturday that called for a 30-day cease-fire.
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At the summit meeting on Friday, Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, called for a cease-fire, saying it would mark a "victory" for the meeting.
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Andrew Cuomo and President Donald Trump agreed Tuesday to work together to fight the coronavirus pandemic, reaching a cease-fire in their war of words.
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The first attack during the cease-fire, on Saturday, which killed 36 people and wounded 65, including Taliban fighters, was claimed by the Islamic State.
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Despite the fears of the aftermath, diplomats and analysts said the cease-fire had injected a sense of possibility into a dormant Afghan peace process.
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Russia declared its own "humanitarian pause" in fighting in Syria last week, after the UN Security Council had passed its resolution for a cease fire.
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Representative Will Hurd, a Texas Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, described the cease-fire agreement announced on Thursday as "terms of surrender" to Turkey.
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That is also where Afghans are to find ways to replace the "reduction in violence" called for in the agreement for a full cease-fire.
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Under a cease-fire brokered by U.S. officials, Kurdish fighters on Sunday retreated from the town of Ras al-Ayn near the border with Turkey.
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The Trump administration announced Thursday that a cease-fire agreement had been reached, though the announcement did not stem the tide of criticism from Congress.
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Even a cease-fire, and the prospects that further tariffs can be avoided, might help mitigate the slump in business sentiment and investment in China.
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Ahmad Berri, sounded a more optimistic note than some other rebel leaders, saying he expected to see a full cease-fire in the designated zones.
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Neither the Taliban nor the Afghan government indicated on Friday that a cease-fire is currently being discussed with the U.S., per the Washington Post.
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Any type of cease-fire early in a negotiating process, when the parties have not yet built any momentum, will be especially vulnerable to violations.
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