A leading Islamic cleric in the Gaza Strip has ruled it a sin to violate the recent cease-fire between Israel and the Hamas militant group that governs the Palestinian territory - according a religious legitimacy to the truce and giving the Gaza government strong backing to enforce it. ...
01:27 AM, Nov 26, 2012
A ceasefire between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers took hold after eight days of conflict. ...
09:02 PM, Nov 22, 2012
Gaza/Jaerusalem: A ceasefire between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers took hold on Thursday after eight days of conflict, although deep mistrust on both sides cast doubt on how long the Egyptian-sponsored deal can last. Quiet reigned on both sides of the frontier overnight and during the morning after a dozen rockets landed in Israel in the initial hours after the truce came into force late on Wednesday. Israeli police said...
05:57 PM, Nov 22, 2012
Gaza: Israel and Hamas agreed on Wednesday to a ceasefire brokered by Egypt on the eighth day of intensive Israeli fire on the Gaza Strip and militant rocket attacks. First word of the truce came from a Palestinian official who has knowledge of the negotiations in Cairo, where US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was also pursuing peace efforts. Asked whether a ceasefire deal had been reached, an Egyptian official...
10:54 PM, Nov 21, 2012
Beirut: Syria's opposition called for widespread protests on Friday to test the regime's commitment to an internationally brokered cease-fire that the UN chief described as so fragile it could collapse with a single gunshot. Regime forces halted heavy shelling and other major attacks in line with the truce that began at dawn on Thursday, though there were accusations of scattered violence by both sides. The government ignored demands to pull...
02:48 AM, Apr 13, 2012
Beirut: Syria promised to observe a UN-backed ceasefire starting on Thursday, but its forces kept up fierce attacks on opposition neighbourhoods in the hours before the deadline. A Syrian defence ministry source quoted on state television on Wednesday said the army would halt operations on Thursday morning, but would confront "any assault" by armed groups. The report made no mention, however, of withdrawing troops from urban areas - something that...
02:58 AM, Apr 12, 2012
Sanaa: Saudi Arabia has brokered a fresh truce between a powerful Yemeni tribal federation and forces loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh, a Saudi source said on Saturday, and a tribal leader said his followers were abiding by it. A Saudi-brokered truce agreed a week ago held for only a day before fresh street battles broke out in the capital Sanaa, leading to the most intense fighting there since the...
12:08 AM, Jun 05, 2011
Tripoli: Muammar Gaddafi is ready for a truce to stop the fighting in his country, visiting South African president said on Monday after meeting the Libyan ruler, but he listed familiar Gaddafi conditions that have scuttled previous cease-fire efforts. The South African president. Jacob Zuma, said Gaddafi is ready to accept an African Union initiative for a cease-fire that would stop all hostilities, including NATO airstrikes in support of rebel...
07:10 AM, May 31, 2011
Sanaa: A sense of calm returned to Yemen's embattled capital on Sunday hours after armed tribesman and President Ali Abdullah Saleh's forces reached a truce to halt clashes threatening to plunge the state into civil war. Pedestrians and cars returned to Sanaa streets where pitched battles in nearly a week of fighting killed at least 115 and raised global worries over the impoverished country perched next to a crucial shipping...
02:15 PM, May 29, 2011
The Naxals had asked the Home Ministry to call on the number on February 25. ...
04:41 PM, Feb 25, 2010
Sydney: After five failures in as many matches during the ongoing CB series, former Australia captain Ricky Ponting was on Monday dropped for the team's next two matches. Ponting has scores of 2,1,6,2 and 7 so far against India and Sri Lanka who are the two other two teams in the tri-series competition. The 37-year old flopped once again in the tournament on Sunday when he managed just seven (26...
06:42 PM, Apr 25, 2008
In a speech posted on an Islamic website, the leader of al-Qaida-linked insurgents in Iraq offered US troops a one-month truce. ...
11:16 AM, Dec 23, 2006
