Al Jazeera English
| Mar 21, 2013
Jailed Kurdish rebel chief Abdullah Ocalan has called for a ceasefire with the Turkish state, raising hopes that a conflict that has killed 40,000 people over 30 years could be nearing its end. He called for his PKK organization's guerrilla fighte...
ABC News
| Mar 21, 2013
Two rockets fired from Gaza hit a town in southern Israel on the morning of the second day of President Obama's visit. The president is visiting the West Bank today and analysts suspect the attack, which breaks the November ceasefire, may be a war...
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MBC
| Mar 11, 2013
North Korea has threatened to throw out the ceasefire agreement that ended the Korean War in 1953. South Korea has responded by promising retaliation against any aggression. And as South Korean broadcaster MBC reports, the North's two biggest alli...
Al Jazeera English
| Jan 20, 2013
A two month unilateral ceasefire declared by armed groups in Colombia has ended. The truce had been offered as a gesture of good will during on-going peace talks in Cuba. Sunday's deadline has civilians bracing themselves for an upsurge in violence.
CNN
| Dec 11, 2012
The Israel-Hamas ceasefire agreement was supposed to loosen some restrictions on Gaza's fishermen but, as CNN's Fred Pleitgen reports, things haven't changed much in reality.
Al Jazeera English
| Nov 25, 2012
Following Israel's ceasefire agreement with Hamas, fishermen from the Gaza Strip are allowed to sail twice as far out to sea. The relaxed restrictions are a welcome change in a territory that is heavily dependent on outside aid, but there are stil...
Euronews
| Nov 24, 2012
Tens of thousands of children have returned to school in the Gaza Strip as the ceasefire holds between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Will students be able to adjust after eight days of cross-border fighting that killed nearly 30...
Russia Today
| Nov 23, 2012
In what Hamas is calling the first violation of the truce, a Palestinian man was killed and at least ten others, mostly teenagers, were injured after Israeli troops opened fire on a group in the "buffer zone" along the border in southern Gaza.
Al Jazeera English
| Nov 22, 2012
As the people of Gaza start to rebuild, Al Jazeera takes a look at one of the conflict's final victims. Nader Abumaghasib, 15, was killed by an Israeli drone just 40 minutes before the ceasefire began. His father says he will raise his other six s...
Al Jazeera English
| Nov 21, 2012
The people of Gaza are picking up the pieces after eight days of Israeli bombardment. The fragile Israel-Hamas truce held overnight but there is no doubt it is a fragile one, and making sure all sides stick to the agreement will be one of the toug...
— Apr 12, 2012 at 07:12 pm
...picturing Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad is displayed for sale in Damascus on April 12, 2012, as a UN-backed ceasefire went into effect.(Louai...
— Jun 4, 2012 at 07:18 pm
...of anti-government groups. Earlier the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, a UK-based group, said at least 80 soldiers had been killed in clashe...
— Aug 18, 2012 at 11:18 am
A ceasefire (or truce) is a temporary stoppage of a war in which each side agrees with the other to suspend aggressive actions. Ceasefires may be declared as part of a formal treaty, but they have also been called as part of an informal understanding between opposing forces. An armistice is a formal agreement to end fighting.
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