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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
3/22/2022 5:41:53 PM
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says this week's meeting between NATO leaders should be focused on ways of securing a cease-fire in Russia's invasion of Ukraine and not just on sanctions and deterrence.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
3/18/2022 3:23:26 PM
A spokesman for Olaf Scholz says the German chancellor spoke Friday by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin and urged him to agree to an immediate cease-fire in Ukraine.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
3/8/2022 9:28:41 AM
Russian officials said they planned to carry out a limited cease-fire on Tuesday to allow civilians to safely flee besieged Ukrainian cities, something Ukrainian officials said they would believe only after safe evacuations begin, after two earlier attempts at cease-fires failed.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
3/6/2022 12:16:30 PM
Russian forces will observe a temporary cease-fire Sunday in two Ukrainian cities, an official in one of the country's two pro-Russia separatist regions said after an agreement to allow civilians to evacuate collapsed a day earlier amid continued shelling.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
3/6/2022 8:09:31 AM
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Saturday that Ukrainian statehood is in jeopardy, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a ``desperate plea'' for more planes as Russian forces continued to batter strategic locations with missiles and artillery and a temporary cease-fire failed.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
3/5/2022 1:36:44 PM
The Ukrainian president's office says civilian evacuations have halted in an area of the country where Russian defense officials had announced a cease-fire, as Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that any country that sought to impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine would be considered by Moscow to have entered the conflict.
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World
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International
2/20/2022 9:39:53 PM
Russia extended military drills near Ukraine's northern borders Sunday amid increased fears that two days of sustained shelling along the contact line between soldiers and Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine could spark an invasion. Ukraine's president appealed for a cease-fire.
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World
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Africa
1/26/2022 2:00:41 PM
Ethiopia's prime minister has said there will be negotiations on a cease-fire between his government and the rival Tigray forces who have been waging war for almost 15 months, the chairman of a diaspora group that had a private meeting with him told The Associated Press.
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World
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Region
12/7/2021 7:55:49 PM
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced the appointment Monday of American diplomat Stephanie Williams, who led talks that resulted in the October 2020 cease-fire deal in Libya, to support the holding of presidential elections in the oil-rich north African country scheduled later this month which face many challenges.
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World
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Africa
11/23/2021 5:05:30 PM
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa have called for increased cooperation to bring peace to conflict-ridden regions in Africa, at the start of the Kenyan leader's two-day state visit to South Africa.
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World
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International
11/8/2021 9:54:40 PM
Pakistani authorities Monday announced a month-long cease-fire with a key militant group behind numerous attacks on security forces and civilians over the last 14 years.
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World
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Africa
11/4/2021 5:50:48 PM
Urgent new efforts to calm Ethiopia's escalating war unfolded Thursday as a US special envoy arrived and the president of neighboring Kenya called for an immediate cease-fire while the country marks a year of conflict.
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World
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Region
9/27/2021 1:54:04 PM
President Joe Biden s national security adviser Jake Sullivan is traveling to Saudi Arabia on Monday to meet with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as the U.S. tries to press the kingdom to move toward a cease-fire in its yearslong war with Houthi rebels in Yemen.
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World
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Region
9/12/2021 8:48:31 PM
The tensions have been worsened by ongoing difficulties in reaching a long-term cease-fire between Israel and Hamas following the war in May
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World
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Region
9/12/2021 6:40:53 PM
The Russian-negotiated cease-fire was designed to end the violence that erupted this summer between government forces and opposition fighters
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World
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International
9/1/2021 5:26:18 PM
As part of the deal, Russian military police are deploying in Daraa al-Balad, the rebel-held old quarter of Daraa city in southern Syria. The deal also involves the disarming or expulsion of a dozen rebel fighters from the area
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World
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Region
8/24/2021 9:44:21 AM
The violence came as cease-fire talks brokered by Egypt continued to deteriorate. It also threatened to overshadow Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's visit this week to the United States
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World
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Africa
7/13/2021 10:56:03 PM
The detentions follow the dramatic turn in the war last month when Tigray forces marched into the regional capital, Mekele, as Ethiopian soldiers retreated and Ethiopia's gov’nt announced a unilateral cease-fire
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World
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Africa
7/1/2021 9:46:36 AM
The Tigray forces saying the cease-fire was a 'sick joke', vowing to chase out Ethiopian and Eritrean forces
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World
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Africa
6/28/2021 8:06:59 PM
The statement carried by state media came shortly after the Tigray interim administration, appointed by the federal government, fled the regional capital, Mekele, and called for a cease-fire on humanitarian grounds
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