How the fightin’ Irish have kept the peace for centuries
For centuries the land and the people of Ireland were part of the United Kingdom’s British Empire. In 1937, Ireland technically became a republic, but remained under the British Commonwealth,…
Top 5 peace treaties that were never honored
There is never a guarantee that victory lies at the end of a conflict. Victory is a deliberate for peace. Peace, however, is a relative term because peace is not…
Today in military history: Egypt and Israel sign historic peace treaty
On March 26, 1979, Israel and Egypt signed a historic peace agreement, ending three decades of hostilities. Tension had existed between the two countries since 1917, when British policies announced…
The ‘Peacemaker’ trailer is here in all its glory
In the wake of James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad, John Cena will reprise his role as Peacemaker in a series for HBO Max. Peacemaker is a nationalist who loves peace…
How the Taliban went from international pariah to U.S. peace partner in Afghanistan
In the mid-1990s, U.S. oil company Unocal attempted to secure a gas-pipeline deal with the Taliban, which had seized control of the Afghan capital, Kabul, after a devastating civil war.
It was the United States’ first attempt to forge a p…
US-Taliban peace talks end with ‘real strides made’ but no deal
The longest round of peace talks between the United States and the Taliban has ended with “real strides” being made but without an agreement on troop withdrawals from Afghanistan, U.S. special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad said on March 12, 2019.
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US wants Afghanistan exit after Taliban peace talks
The US has committed to pulling its forces, as well as NATO forces, out of Afghanistan in a serious bid to stop the 17-year-long war that’s claimed tens of thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of US tax dollars.
Citing “significant pr…
The US and Taliban agree to the ‘framework’ of a peace deal
U.S. and Taliban officials have agreed in principle to the “framework” of a peace deal, The New York Times quotes U.S. special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad as saying after five days of talks between the militant group and the United States in Qatar.
Here’s the latest from the Taliban-US-Afghanistan peace talks
The Taliban has reportedly made a major concession to the US during their peace talks in Afghanistan, according to