EVEN if the government signs a peace accord with the banned TTP, it will provide only temporary or

12 in Doha, Qatar, increasing by 45 percent in the final quarter of 2020 versus the same time period in 2019.... Another 9 percent was attributed to undetermined anti-government elements.... It was the lowest number in that category since 2009. After the February 2020 agreement, the Taliban refrained from attacking American or other NATO forces....

President Putin’s Direct Line last week did not include any new foreign policy concepts, but it did reveal the mood of the government. The Russian leader repeated his customary arguments, albeit without the passion and intensity that have marked his public statements in recent years.

( Reuters)-Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Saturday called for comprehensive peace talks

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates— The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen announced late Tuesday that it would observe a unilateral cease-fire in the yearslong war, a move it said was aimed at facilitating negotiations in the kingdom that Yemen’s Houthi rebels are boycotting.... Houthi leaders did not immediately respond to the Saudi announcement late Tuesday. Other unilateral cease-fires announced by the coalition over the last two years have swiftly collapsed.... Ramadan is likely to start this

2013. Officials said Mr.... Ghani is “ steadfast in his resolve to make the peace talks succeed.” On

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BOGOTA( Reuters)-Peace talks between Colombia's government and the largest FARC dissident group

. After a fourth straight day of talks between Russian and Ukrainian negotiators without tangible