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A truce—not a compromise, but a chance for high-toned gentlemen to retire gracefully from their very civil declarations of war By Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly , February 17, 1877, p. 132. A ceasefire (also known as a truce ), [ 1 ] also spelled cease-fire (the antonym of 'open fire'), [ 2 ] is a stoppage of a war in which each side agrees ...
The 1953 Korean War Armistice Agreement is a major example of an armistice which has not been followed by a peace treaty. An armistice is also different from a truce or ceasefire, which refer to a temporary cessation of hostilities for an agreed limited time or within a limited area. A truce may be needed in order to negotiate an armistice.
An armistice is a formal agreement of warring parties to stop fighting. It is not necessarily the end of a war, as it may constitute only a cessation of hostilities while an attempt is made to negotiate a lasting peace. [1] It is derived from the Latin arma, meaning "arms" (as in weapons) and -stitium, meaning "a stopping". [2]
Armistice Day is observed in Britain every 11 November to mark the agreement signed between the Allies and Germany that brought an end to the First World War and to remember the soldiers who gave ...
1955 United Nations map showing the Armistice Agreements, with original map reference points ("MR") on the Palestine grid referenced in the respective agreements. Palestine Military Situation, April 6, 1949. Truman Papers. The 1949 Armistice Agreements were signed between Israel and Egypt, [1] Lebanon, [2] Jordan, [3] and Syria. [4]
The fact that the current international law system avoids the use of the term 'war' also avoids the conclusion of a peace treaty based on the existence of war. [6] A peace treaty was not signed after the end of the Iraq War in 2003, and only the UN Security Council Resolution 1483 , adopted on May 22, 2003, stipulated the postwar regime for the ...
Services held every 11 November to mourn British soldiers killed in First World War and all subsequent conflicts
A hudna (from the Arabic هدنة meaning "calm" or "quiet") is a truce or armistice. [1] It is sometimes translated as "cease-fire". In his medieval dictionary of classical Arabic, the Lisan al-Arab, Ibn Manzur defined it as: "hadana: he grew quiet. hadina: he quieted (transitive or intransitive). haadana: he made peace with.