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[Jpost] President Ashraf Ghani called on Thursday for the ceasefire for Ramadan, which began in Afghanistan on Friday, and to allow the country to focus on the coronavirus outbreak.
The Taliban have rejected an Afghan government call for a ceasefire for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and to let authorities focus on tackling the coronavirus, raising new concern about prospects for a fragile peace process.
Hopes for an end to Afghanistan's decades of war were raised in late February when the Taliban and the United States struck a deal on the withdrawal of U.S.-led foreign forces in exchange for Taliban security guarantees.
But the deal did not include a ceasefire, which has been left to the U.S.-backed government to negotiate with the insurgents.
A Taliban spokesman, Suhail Shaheen, said in a post on Twitter that a ceasefire would be possible if the peace process was being implemented "fully" but "hurdles" meant the Taliban would not yet lay down their arms.
"Asking for ceasefire is not rational and convincing," Shaheen said in his post late on Thursday.
President Ashraf Ghani called on Thursday for the ceasefire for Ramadan, which began in Afghanistan on Friday, and to allow the country to focus on what he said was a critical novel coronavirus outbreak spreading all over the country.
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Libyan Interior Ministry held a parade in Tripoli on Thursday to announce the start of the ministry’s plan A to maintain security and stability amid coronavirus outbreak. Photos: Interior Ministry pic.twitter.com/29XG4exxzA
The private jet of Khalifa Haftar, commander of the LNA in Libya, landed in Caracas overnight. No confirmation on who was onboard. #Venezuela#Libyahttps://t.co/KoBBz6jicn
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Picking up some gold?
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Two different twitter sources on this today. See also here. Usually I stack them in one post or delete the duplicate but I didn’t catch it last night.
[Rudaw] A man believed to have belonged to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) group goes on trial in Germany on Friday accused of genocide and murdering a child belonging to the Yezidi minority who he held as a slave.
the 37-year-old Iraqi man is also accused of crimes against humanity, war crimes, and human trafficking in the case, heard before Frankfurt judges.
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[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, chief Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... and Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... Secretary General Ziyad Nakhala underscored, in a phone call, the continuation of resistance till achieving the complete liberation of the land and prisoners and the return of the refugees to their hometowns, including al-Quds.The two leaders also highlighting the importance of the unity among the Paleostinian factions in confronting the ongoing Israeli aggression, exchanging congratulation on the advent of the Holy Month of Ramadan.
[MENA] Flipping a prominent commander exposes the central tensions between Moscow and Tehran
As Russian maestro Valery Gergiev strolled onstage amid the ruins of Palmyra in 2016, few were in any doubt how much of a PR coup the orchestral concert was for Russia.
Moscow had helped recapture a historic site, ravaged by ISIS, but more importantly, they had beaten the Iranians to the prize.
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[SYRIAHR] The French government has evacuated a seven-year-old orphan little girl of ISIS families in "Self-Administration" areas, who has been suffering from a heart disease and her health condition has tanked in recent days.
The little girl is a child of two parents who were in the ranks of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of French nationality. She was transferred to the Kurdistan Region of Iraq in preparation for her transfer to La Belle France.
The department of foreign relations of "Self-Administration" handed over 35 children of ISIS families in al-Hawl camp to the Russian Child Rights Commissioner Anna Kuznetsova, for repatriating them to Russia in February this year.
#France condemned #Iran's launch of a military satellite into orbit, saying this was in contravention of a #UN Security Council resolution, according to the Foreign Ministry#BaghdadPosthttps://t.co/TuZ3mefM8g
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...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
