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The United States–Taliban deal, officially known as the Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan between the United States of America and the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (commonly known as the Taliban and not recognized by the United States as a state) and commonly known as the Doha Accord, [1] was a peace agreement signed by the United States and the Taliban on 29 February 2020 in ...
The IRA had waged a terrorist campaign against the British establishment for years and the royal family was rocked when republicans murdered the Queen’s second cousin, Lord Mountbatten, in 1979.
In a relative rarity for presidential elections, both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have long records on foreign policy and clearly stated positions on many of the world's ...
The panicked peace talks have kicked off following US president Donald Trump’s decision to push for a deal with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to end the fighting in Ukraine.
A hostages-and-prisoners exchange and armistice to end the Gaza war were agreed to by Israel and Hamas on 15 January 2025, and came into effect on 19 January. The proposal was first drafted by mediators from the United States, Egypt, and Qatar, accepted by Hamas on 5 May 2024 and presented by U.S. president Joe Biden on 31 May. [1]
[4] [5] However, there have been heavily criticized incidents in which U.S. government leaders were found to have negotiated with terrorists: In the Iran–Contra affair , the Reagan administration sought to free seven American hostages being held in Lebanon by Hezbollah , a paramilitary group with Iranian ties connected to the Islamic ...
In November 2018, all the sanctions removed in 2015 were re-imposed on Iran by the Trump administration. [262] In October 2018 the International Court of Justice provisionally ordered the United States to cancel its sanctions against Iran, relying on the 1955 Treaty of Amity. [263] In response, the United States withdrew from the treaty. [263]
Joe Biden is expected to use Israel’s killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar to pressure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to wind down the war in Gaza, but in the waning months of his term the U ...