{"id":14309,"date":"2020-02-13T08:28:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T23:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/12\/afghanistan-taliban-partial-ceasefire-us"},"modified":"2020-02-13T08:28:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T23:28:19","slug":"us-touts-partial-ceasefire-with-taliban-in-push-for-election-year-troop-reduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14309","title":{"rendered":"US touts partial ceasefire with Taliban in push for election-year troop reduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban officials have reportedly offered a seven-day \u2018reduction of violence\u2019 but Afghanistan experts question long-term significance<\/p>\n<p>The US and Taliban are close to agreeing to a partial week-long ceasefire in Afghanistan intended to be a precursor to broader peace talks and withdrawal of at least some US troops.<\/p>\n<p>Negotiators from both sides have been discussing the deal in Qatar and have said that an agreement is close. The <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/e2de40ae1c9bdfc5e05e8cc4fc55a944\">Associated Press<\/a> quoted two Taliban officials as saying they would walk away from the negotiating table if the offer of a seven-day \u201creduction of violence\u201d was not accepted.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/12\/afghanistan-taliban-partial-ceasefire-us\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban officials have reportedly offered a seven-day \u2018reduction of violence\u2019 but Afghanistan experts question long-term significanceThe US and Taliban are close to agreeing to a partial week-long ceasefire in Afghanistan intended to be a precursor to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"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":[46,61,44,45,758,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-national-security","category-us-news","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\/14309","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\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14310,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14309\/revisions\/14310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}