Afghan president offers Taliban new provisional ceasefire

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http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gfAfdINLy1JCXNHSu8ziA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c4b7424f220a467528f32b06b4f67d98b50305a2.jpg (https://www.yahoo.com/news/afghan-president-offers-taliban-provisional-ceasefire-152529920.html)Afghan President Ashraf Ghani declared a provisional three-month ceasefire with the Taliban in a televised broadcast Sunday, a move welcomed by Washington but yet to receive a reply from the militants themselves. The announcement followed a bloody week of fighting across Afghanistan which saw the Taliban launch a massive assault against the provincial capital Ghazni. Anticipation had been mounting ahead of Ghani's speech following mixed signals from the presidential palace over whether the government would offer a fresh truce -- following a brief, unprecedented ceasefire earlier in June.



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