Suspension of hostilities is first at end of Ramadan since 2001 but operations against ‘foreign occupiers’ will continueThe Taliban have announced a three-day ceasefire over Eid, the holiday that caps off Ramadan, though they said operations against “foreign occupiers” would continue. It is the first time the group has agreed to a ceasefire at Eid since the US invasion in 2001. The militants said foreign forces would be excluded from the ceasefire and that operations against them would continue. “But if the mujahideen are attacked we will strongly defend [ourselves].”The Taliban added that “foreign occupiers are the exception” to the order sent to its fighters. On Thursday the Afghan president, Ashraf Ghani, declared an apparently unilateral week-long ceasefire with the Taliban.

Source: The Guardian June 09, 2018 06:14 UTC