Warring Afghan Factions Say Cease-fire Holding
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A renegade Afghan militia commander and a spokesman for the governor of the western province of Herat said on Wednesday their forces were honoring a cease-fire brokered a day earlier by the US envoy to Afghanistan.
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NATO and Afghan forces used aircraft in clashes that left 14 militants dead, capping several days of intense fighting that killed more than 100 people and threatened efforts to stabilize southern Afghanistan.
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NATO and Afghan forces killed 22 Taliban fighters in separate clashes in a southern Afghan province where hundreds of militants have gathered, a police official said Tuesday.
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A US-brokered ceasefire halted fighting in western Afghanistan yesterday, ending five days of bloodshed that heightened anxieties in the run-up to October&#39;s presidential election.
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Rivals in western Afghanistan agreed to a cease-fire last week after the arrival of the Afghan National Army.
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The U.S. ambassador helped broker a cease-fire Tuesday to halt the latest bloody infighting in Afghanistan, persuading a warlord to pull away from a provincial capital as U.S. warplanes circled overhead.
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Taliban militants remain in control of a southern Afghan town nearly a week after capturing it, but NATO expects the Afghan government to soon reassert its authority there, an alliance spokesman said Wednesday.
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Afghan security forces clashed with Taliban militants in a firefight in southern Afghanistan, killing 60 insurgents and four soldiers, an Afghan official said Wednesday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan Aug. 17, 2004  An Afghan warlord abandoned his gains in the country&#39;s latest burst of factional fighting Tuesday, after the United States brokered a cease-fire and sent warplanes circling overhead.
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SANAA -- Yemeni Shi'ite rebels said yesterday that they had accepted a cease-fire proposed by the government to end months of violent clashes that have killed hundreds in the north of the Arab country. State media said a cease-fire was mediated by Qatar that committed Yemen to reconstruction in rebel areas, required rebels to give up their heavy weapons, and ...
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A cease-fire between the two Palestinian groups aims to end four days of bloody violence
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Pakistani military denies any truce has been agreed after Taliban fighters call halt to operations near Afghan border
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Palestinian factions agreed to stop violence and Israel said it would halt its military operations, but it was not clear if the deal would take effect and hold.
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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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A coalition of Taliban militants in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday declared an "indefinite" cease-fire in fighting against Pakistani security forces.
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The United Nations has called on all factions involved in several days of fighting in eastern Congo to agree to a cease-fire. Clashes continued Monday as the United Nations ordered the government to clarify
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The western Afghan city of Herat was calm yesterday following bloody clashes between supporters of the powerful ousted governor and US and Afghan forces sent to keep the peace.