Taliban Ends Truce. Orders Attacks On Afghan Government Forces

Talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban must begin by March 10 under the US-Taliban agreement [Sorin Forcui/Al Jazeera]

The Guardian: Afghanistan: bomb attack kills three as Taliban ends partial truce

* Motorcycle with bomb explodes during football match
* Taliban’s week-long ‘reduction of violence’ expired on Saturday

Three people have been killed and 11 injured in a motorcycle bomb attack at a football match in eastern Afghanistan, as the Taliban announced an end to a partial truce two days after signing a deal with the US.

The Taliban had agreed to a week-long “reduction of violence” as a confidence-building measure ahead of the agreement signed on Saturday, in which the US pledged that all foreign forces would leave Afghanistan within 14 months, if the Taliban sat down for talks on Afghanistan’s future with government representatives.

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WNU Editor: There will be no talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government as promised for March 10. The war continues.

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