{"id":12980,"date":"2020-01-17T03:03:34","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T18:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/16\/taliban-offer-to-stand-down-fighters-to-restart-peace-talks-with-us"},"modified":"2020-01-17T03:03:34","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T18:03:34","slug":"taliban-offer-to-stand-down-fighters-to-restart-peace-talks-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12980","title":{"rendered":"Taliban offer to stand down fighters to restart peace talks with US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proposal for short and partial ceasefire may bring Afghan officials into peace process<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban have offered to stand down their fighters for several days, in an effort to restart peace negotiations with the US that were abruptly called off last year by Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal for a seven to 10-day halt in military operations was given to the US peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad on Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/bded23c91240fcdf11bb605b05e42d6c\">AP reported<\/a>. The US, which has been pushing for a ceasefire to pave the way for new talks, is still evaluating the insurgents\u2019 offer, an American official said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/16\/taliban-offer-to-stand-down-fighters-to-restart-peace-talks-with-us\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proposal for short and partial ceasefire may bring Afghan officials into peace processThe Taliban have offered to stand down their fighters for several days, in an effort to restart peace negotiations with the US that were abruptly called off last year&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,61,44,554,47,631,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-trump-administration","category-us-news","category-us-politics","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12981,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12980\/revisions\/12981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}