Ceasefire expected to bring temporary peace
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A five-point ceasefire proposal accepted on Thursday by the interim Iraqi Government and Shi&#39;ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is expected to put a hold on the three-week-old battle between rebels and US-Iraqi forces in the holy city of Najaf.
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SUDAN&#39;S government and southern rebels will agree a permanent ceasefire today at talks aimed at ending Africa&#39;s longest-running civil war, delegates said.
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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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Northern Ireland's fragile peace process enters a make-or-break period this week as British, Irish and U.S. mediators work to end an 11-month stalemate among feuding sectarian parties.
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A ceasefire began in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, heralding a possible end to Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel and a halt to a crushing Israeli military offensive.
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The leaders of Israel and the Palestinian Authority are expected to announce their intention to suspend attacks after four years of conflict.
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A truce between Palestinian militants in Gaza and Israel took effect on Sunday, heralding a possible end to a wave of rocket attacks on the Jewish state and a halt to a five-month-old Israeli military offensive.
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Radical Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al Sadr has threatened to lift by the end of the week a six-month cease-fire widely credited with helping reduce violence in Iraq
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A cease-fire between northern fighters and the Ugandan government is expected to be signed Friday. By Abraham McLaughlin | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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Israel will allow dozens of exiled  Palestinian militants to return home in a move likely to  bolster Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's effort to talk  Islamist militants into a truce, officials said on Saturday.
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A cease-fire between northern fighters and the government is expected to be signed Friday.
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A new peace deal which would see Northern Ireland's home rule government restored and the IRA disarm could be struck soon.
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Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is expected to meet militant factions in a bid to shore up a truce with Israel.
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The Palestinian Cabinet agrees the terms of a ceasefire to put to Israel to end cross-border attacks.
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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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REBELS of the Lordâs Resistance Army and members of the Ugandan government are expected to sign a ceasefire today, ending one of the worldâs bloodiest conflicts.
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Palestinian factions behind rocket attacks on Israel signaled softer terms for a truce on Friday, giving Israel 48 hours in which to agree to a mutual cessation of violence in the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian official said.