Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani said Sunday that a seven-day partial truce would continue, but he rejected a key component of a new US-Taliban deal that calls for the release of thousands of insurgent prisoners. The so-called “reduction in violence” period ran for the week preceding the signing of an accord ...
The US and the Taliban agreed to swap thousands of prisoners in a “confidence building measure” as part of a landmark deal on Afghanistan’s future signed in Doha on Saturday. “Up to 5,000 prisoners of the (Taliban)… and 1,000 prisoners of the other side (Afghan forces) will be released by ...
