'Truce' halts Pakistan fighting
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Pakistani security forces and militants in the Swat Valley begin an unofficial ceasefire after days of fierce fighting.
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Pakistan and India agreed Saturday to restart peace talks suspended since train bombings killed more than 200 people in Mumbai in July as part of a wave of attacks India blames on Pakistan-based militants.
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Pakistan's military and al  Qaeda-linked militants agreed to a 10-day truce on Monday, the  day the army killed four Islamic militants including two  foreigners in a tribal region near Afghanistan, officials said.
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KABUL, Afghanistan Aug. 18, 2004  A cease-fire between warring militias in western Afghanistan held on Wednesday, officials said, easing a conflict that has sounded alarm bells from Kabul to the United Nations about the need to improve security ahead ...
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Israel signaled on Saturday it could  ease back military operations against Palestinian militants if  they halted attacks, but the guerrillas said only a full  Israeli cease-fire could stop fighting.
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A US-brokered cease-fire in western Afghanistan has held as warplanes and Afghan National Army units patrol a buffer zone between the warring factions.
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The announcement of a cease-fire against one of Pakistanâs most wanted men has raised questions about the governmentâs commitment to combating militancy.
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Palestinian rivals Hamas and Fatah said they had agreed to a ceasefire on Sunday after a day of bloodshed in which President Mahmoud Abbas's offices came under mortar fire and his Fatah forces seized two ministries.
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A QUIET anniversary was celebrated last month. For an entire year, Indian and Pakistani forces have observed a ceasefire along the Line of Control that divides Kashmir.
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Militant groups have agreed to temporarily halt attacks on Israel, a trial period before a formal truce agreement, to give Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas time to appeal to Israel to stop targeting militants, Palestinian officials said Monday.
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A leading militant group in the Pakistani region of South Waziristan announces a truce, officials say.
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Pakistan&#39;s military and al Qaeda-linked militants agreed to a 10-day truce on Monday, the day the army killed four Islamic militants including two foreigners in a tribal region near Afghanistan, officials said.
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Gunmen shot and wounded a Fatah militant on Wednesday, the second day of a ceasefire that has largely halted gun battles between fighters from the once-dominant Palestinian faction and the governing Hamas group.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said a deal was reached between his Fatah faction and Hamas to halt fierce clashes in the Gaza Strip in which six fighters were killed on Tuesday.
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A truce between rival Palestinian factions in Gaza appears to take hold after days of deadly clashes.
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The rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas reached a tentative cease-fire Sunday to end days of bloody fighting that had raised tensions in the Gaza Strip to their highest point in a decade, mediators said.
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Pakistan yesterday said the arrest of a band of al Qaeda terrorists had stopped a plot to kill hundreds in simultaneous suicide attacks on government leaders and the US Embassy.