A rare ceasefire between the Taliban and Afghan government appears to hold for the third and final day with hundreds of Taliban prisoners released
A prisoner after his release from Bagram Prison in Parwan province of Kabul, Afghanistan, May 26, 2020
Prisoner releases will continue until the total reaches 5,100 – 100 more than required by the US-Taliban peace deal signed in February, it said.The Taliban said they have already completed their part of the prisoners' swap by releasing 1,000 captive security forces.The insurgents announced a surprise cease-fire during the three-day Muslim Eid al Adha festival that started on Friday.
Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada, the leader of the insurgents in Afghanistan, in his traditional message this year asserted that the group was "on the threshold of establishing an Islamic government" in the war-ravaged country. Civilian casualties attributed to government forces increased by 9 percent to 23 percent of the total number of civilian casualties – 789 people – in the first half of the year, with 281 killed and 508 injured.
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