Conflicts / Tags / Ceasefire

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Jun 18, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

BBC News -- Israel has approved a ceasefire to end months of bitter clashes with the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in Gaza, Israeli officials have confirmed. Under the terms of the truce, which is set to begin on Thursday, Israel will ease its blockade on th.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Mar 22, 2007 @ 6:00pm neoform

BBC News -- A former top American diplomat says the US deliberately resisted calls for a immediate ceasefire during the conflict in Lebanon in the summer of 2006. Former ambassador to the UN John Bolton told the BBC that before any ceasefire Washington wanted Isra.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Feb 22, 2008 @ 8:24am neoform

BBC News -- Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr has ordered the renewal of the ceasefire his powerful militia has been observing for the past six months. He announced in August that his Mehdi Army would not attack rival armed groups or American forces in Iraq. This was wi.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Jun 5, 2007 @ 9:25am neoform

BBC News -- The Basque separatist group Eta says its ceasefire with the Spanish government will end at midnight. Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero condemned Eta's move. "Eta's decision goes totally in the opposite direction of the path that Basque and.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sat Jun 2, 2007 @ 11:35am neoform

BBC News -- The main rebel group in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta region has pledged a one-month ceasefire to allow the new government to create a peace plan. A spokesman for the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend) said they would suspend atta.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu May 31, 2007 @ 10:13am neoform

Al Jazeera -- Israel has rebuffed calls by Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, for a ceasefire under which Gaza fighters would halt cross-border rocket attacks and Israel would stop its bombing campaign in the coastal strip. Hamas, which formed a unity gove.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue May 22, 2007 @ 7:58am neoform

BBC News -- The Lebanese army has shelled Islamic militants inside a Palestinian refugee camp for a third consecutive day, despite appeals for a ceasefire. Troops have surrounded the Nahr al-Bared camp, near Tripoli, but the militants say they are entrenched and a.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sat May 19, 2007 @ 11:34am neoform

BBC News -- The rival Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah have agreed another ceasefire as they attempt to end an upsurge in fighting in the Gaza Strip. It is the fifth such truce since violence broke out last Sunday. Since then about 50 people have died. The tw.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Feb 5, 2007 @ 6:44pm neoform

BBC News -- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said his country can play a major role in international efforts to end sectarian violence in Iraq... Read More