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Old 03-02-2020, 07:35 AM
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Taliban announce resumption of military action in Afghanistan
By: TASS Russian News Agency - 03-02-20
Re: https://tass.com/world/1125711

The Afghan authorities and the Taliban had earlier agreed to a "reduced violence period" in the country, which by now ended.

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MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. Afghanistan’s Taliban movement announced that the "reduced violence period" is over and announced resumption of military action against the Afghanistan government forces, a movement representative told AFP.

No further details are available at the moment.

The Afghan authorities and the Taliban agreed to a "reduced violence period" in the country, which began at midnight on February 22. Reuters reported that the agreement was supposed to last seven days.

On February 29, a peace treaty between the US and the Taliban was signed in Qatar’s Doha. According to the treaty, the intra-Afghan talks are supposed to begin on March 10. As a trust-building measure, the Taliban agreed to release 1,000 prisoners, while the government is to free 5,000 Taliban supporters before March 10.

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2nd Russian posting:

Counter-terrorist efforts in Syria will be continued, pledged Kremlin spokesman
By: Tass Russian News Agency - 03-01-20
Re: https://tass.com/politics/1125351

Dmitry Peskov noted that Russian military facilities in the republic also come under shelling by terrorists.

MOSCOW, March 1. /TASS/. Counter-terrorist efforts in Syria will be continued, Russian president’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with the Moscow. Kremlin. Putin program on the Rossiya-1 television channel on Sunday.

Peskov noted that Russian military facilities in Syria also come under shelling by terrorists. "That is why, fight against these terrorist elements will be continued against all the odds," he said.

He stressed that under the Sochi agreements Turkey was supposed to ensure inaction of these elements. "Regrettably, Turkey has failed to implement its commitments and terrorists have gone over to the offensive against Syrian armed forces," he added.

Peskov recalled that Russia is the only country to have its soldiers in Syria "at the request from the Syrian legitimate government." "Servicemen of all other countries are staying in Syria in violation of the norms and principles of international law," he added.

The situation around Idlib aggravated on February 27 when, according to the Russian defense ministry, militants attempted a large-scale attack. The Syrian government army retaliated by delivering a strike, which, Ankara claims, killed 33 Turkish soldiers. The Russian defense ministry said however that the Turkish soldiers who had come under fire from the Syria army were fighting along with the terrorists.

The current aggravation was in a focus of a telephone conversation between Russian and Turkish Presidents, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan. They stressed the necessity of the normalization of the situation and agreed to look at a possible top-level meeting in the coming days.

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Personal note: It looks like we are leaving but the Russian's are staying.
Another comment by Putin: We spent years playing catch-up with the Americas and now they are trying to catch up to us. Most likely Russian propaganda.

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