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June 7, 2018

Afghan Government Announces Temporary Ceasefire with Taliban
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Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has announced an unconditional ceasefire
with the Taliban to last until June 20. The ceasefire comes after Muslim
clerics in Afghanistan issued a fatwa-or religious ruling-against
suicide bombings, after an attack Monday, claimed by ISIS, killed 14
people who had gathered for a clerics' peace summit in Kabul. This was
President Ghani's first unconditional offer of a ceasefire since his
election in 2014.


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