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Taliban aim to sign deal with US by end of month: report

The Taliban will implement a 10-day ceasefire with U.S. troops, a reduction in violence with Afghan forces and discussions with Afghan government officials if it reaches a deal with U.S. negotiators in talks in Doha, two sources have said.

KABUL/PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - The Taliban will implement a 10-day ceasefire with U.S. troops, a reduction in violence with Afghan forces and discussions with Afghan government officials if it reaches a deal with U.S. negotiators in talks in Doha, two sources have said. If an agreement is sealed

Fridays announcement comes after statements from Pakistani and Taliban officials that the insurgent group is prepared to reduce violence to reboot stalled negotiations.

The Taliban will implement a 10-day ceasefire with U.S. troops, a reduction in violence with Afghan forces and discussions with Afghan government officials if it reaches an agreement with U.S. negotiators in talks in Doha, two sources have said.

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If the US side accepts the offer, it could amount to the most significant development in the yearlong negotiations since talks resumed after President Trump scuttled the peace process on the eve of a deal in September.

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The Taliban have given the U.S. envoy their offer for a temporary cease-fire in Afghanistan that would last between seven and 10 days, Taliban officials familiar with the negotiations said Thursday.

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on the European Union to support the internationally recognized Libyan government in Tripoli ahead of a summit in Berlin.

Ankara (AP) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on the European Union to support the internationally recognized Libyan government in Tripoli ahead of a summit in Berlin. In...

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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has called on Europe to support its work in Libya, where it is providing military support to the internationally-recognized government, if it wants to end the conflict there.

A meeting in Berlin on Sunday will seek an exit to one of the Middle Easts most intractable proxy wars.

Eastern Libya ports controlled by commander Khalifa Haftar, who is trying to seize the capital Tripoli, are shutting down oil exports, slashing national crude output by more than half and ramping up tensions ahead of a summit in Germany to discuss the country's conflict.

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Eastern Libyan forces closed down major oil ports, a spokesman for an oil protection force allied to eastern-based commander Khalifa Haftar said on Friday, escalating tensions before an international Libya summit to discuss the country's conflict.

Protesters in eastern Libya entered the Zueitina oil terminal on Friday and announced its closure in response to calls by tribal leaders, a port engineer and witnesses told Reuters.

After the entry of Russia and Turkey into the conflict, Germany will host a gathering on Sunday to try to persuade warring factions and their influential patrons to give peace talks a chance.

Turkey, which has promised to send troops to back Libya's government against Haftar's offensive, is at odds with Greece over oil-and-gas drilling rights in the East Mediterranean.

On Thursday, Pervez Musharraf approached the court to challenge the ruling of the special tribunal that had handed him death sentence on charges of high treason.

Pakistan's military spokesman leaves his post after three headline-grabbing years, to praise and criticism.

People living in the countrys erstwhile tribal areas must be heard

A Pakistani court has sentenced 86 members of a radical Islamist party to 55-year prison terms each for taking part in violent rallies in 2018 over the acquittal of a Christian woman in a blasphemy case, a party official said Friday.

A Pakistani court has sentenced 86 members of a radical Islamist party to 55-year prison terms each for taking part in violent rallies in 2018 over the acquittal of a Christian woman in a blasphemy case

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said the "best thing" would be to let the people of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir decide whether they want to remain with Pakistan or want to be independent through a referendum or a plebiscite.

Qureshi reiterated Pakistan's demand that US President Donald Trump should mediate to resolve the Kashmir issue.

"As for the coming discussions at FATF, about Pakistan, at this stage, all options are on the table. And where we come out will depend on the evidence that Pakistan has submitted and continues to submit," he said.

For the third time since August, Beijing had raised the J&K issue at a closed-door meeting of the United Nations Security Council late Wednesday.

New Delhi has always maintained it will continue to stand by its multilateral commitments.

Police also probing their hand in other terror incidents.

The Saudi Arabian government helps its citizens who commit serious crimes in the United States escape the country, a newly declassified FBI memo shows. A newly declassified FBI memo called ...

The FBI believes the Saudi Arabian government almost certainly assists its citizens flee the country after they are accused of serious crimes, undermining the US judicial process, according to newly declassified documents obtained by The Oregonian/OregonLive.

Training for more than 800 Saudi Arabian military students in the United Statescould resume, the Pentagon said Thursday, weeks after a Saudi gunman killed three U.S. sailors at a Florida base.

The car of team RD Limited driven by France's Romain Dumas and Alexandre Winocq is seen on fire during Stage 1 in Al Wajh, Saudi Arabia. REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed

Saudi Arabian Prince Turki Al-Faisal thinks the U.S. assassination by drone strike of Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani was a warning to Iran.

The Saudi government has barred Dr. Walid Fitaihi, a dual Saudi-American citizen, and his wife and six children from leaving the kingdom while he faces charges the U.S. believes have no merit.

The Pentagon said on Thursday it would soon announce a resumption in operational training of Saudi military officers in the United States, suspended after a Saudi officer's fatal shooting of three Americans at a Florida naval base last month.

The Pentagon says that U.S. training for more than 800 Saudi Arabian military students could be restarted in the coming days

U.S. training for more than 800 Saudi Arabian military students could be restarted "in the coming days," the Pentagon said Thursday, nearly six weeks after a shooting by one Saudi trainee killed three sailors at a Florida base. The Pentagon had stopped all flight and field training for the

U.S. training for more than 800 Saudi Arabian military students could be restarted "in the coming days," the Pentagon said Thursday, nearly six weeks after a shooting by one Saudi trainee killed three sailors at a Florida base.

A car bomb targeting a group of Turkish contractors exploded on Saturday in Afgoye, northwest of the Somali capital Mogadishu, wounding at least six people, police said.

A car bomb targeting a group of Turkish contractors exploded on Saturday in Afgoye, northwest of the Somali capital Mogadishu, police said.

Ethiopian farmer Ahmed Ibrahim batted empty water bottles at a swarm of desert locusts the size of his palms that were devouring his field of khat - the mildly narcotic leaf that is his family's main source of income.

Kenyan Premier League (KPL) clubs can do well even without foreign players, AFC Leopards interim head coach Anthony Kimani has said.

Government races against time to contain threat to key food-producing regions in country already reeling from droughts and floods

FKF have set a new date for a Special General Meeting (SGM) to be held at Safari Park Hotel.

Kenya's first green bond was listed for trading on the Nairobi Securities Exchange on Monday, offering investors the chance to put money into an environmentally-friendly fixed income security for the first time in the bourse's 65 year history.

KPL champions Gor Mahia and kit manufacturer Umbro enter into a three-year deal.

Duke Abuya wishes Kariobangi Sharks well as he joins Nkana FC of Zambia for two years.

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Nearly 2,000 Somali civilians have probably been killed by al-Shabab since the United States changed its rules of engagement in 2017.

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Yemen's warring sides opened a new front in their five-year conflict on Saturday - a battle over old and new banknotes that threatens to create two economies in the same state.

Yemen separatist chief warns against collapse of power-sharing deal

UN flags famine alarm signals in Yemen

War-battered Yemen could face the threat of famine again because of the rapid depreciation of its currency and disruptions to salary payments, a senior U.N. humanitarian official warned the Security Council on Thursday.

About 350,0000 have fled Idlib assault, U.N. says; patient in Japan confirmed as having new virus from China

The withdrawal thats underway is the first such pullout under the Saudi-brokered deal

Yemeni separatists and forces loyal to the country's U.N.-recognized government whose deadly infighting erupted last summer in the war-torn Arab country are pulling back from a key southern city, military officials said Thursday.

Yemeni separatists and forces loyal to the country's U.N.-recognized government whose deadly infighting erupted last summer are pulling back from a key southern city

Yemeni separatists and forces loyal to the country's U.N.-recognized government whose deadly infighting erupted last summer in the war-torn Arab country are pulling back from a key southern city, military officials said Thursday.

Yemeni separatists and forces loyal to the countrys U.N.-recognized government whose deadly infighting erupted last summer are pulling back from a key southern city