{"id":79963,"date":"2018-06-13T11:18:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T16:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=79963"},"modified":"2018-06-13T11:19:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T16:19:25","slug":"taliban-continues-attacks-during-cease-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79963","title":{"rendered":"Taliban continues attacks during cease-fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/taliban-keep-fighting-as-kabul-government-s-cease-fire-begins-1.532522\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> reports that the Taliban in Afghanistan is ignoring the cease-fire during the Eid holiday. At least 20 government troops have paid the price with their lives;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Afghan President Ashraf Ghani announced last week that the eight-day truce would begin Tuesday and stretch through the Eid holiday that marks the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.<\/p>\n<p>The gesture aimed at bringing the Taliban into peace talks halted Afghan, U.S. and coalition offensives against the Taliban, but not against other militants.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Taliban said it would only maintain a holiday cease-fire with Afghan troops for three days of Eid, and that foreign troops remain targets.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, attacks killed scores of Afghan troops, and Tuesday saw no ebb in Taliban violence. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite the failure of the cease-fire, Ghani wants to extend it.<\/p>\n<p>The last Afghan administration wanted a peace option with the Taliban &#8211; however the Taliban considers negotiations to be a sign of weakness. The only language that the Taliban understands is MOABs stuck right up their aft-orifice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stars &#038; Stripes reports that the Taliban in Afghanistan is ignoring the cease-fire during the Eid &hellip; <a title=\"Taliban continues attacks during cease-fire\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79963\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Taliban continues attacks during cease-fire<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}