Afghan President Ghani Announces Week-Long Ceasefire With Taliban

Afghan President Ghani Announces Week-Long Ceasefire With Taliban
Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani attends a panel discussion at Asia Society in Manhattan, New York on Sept. 20, 2017. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon
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KABUL—Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Thursday announced for the first time an unconditional ceasefire with the Taliban, but excluded other terrorist groups such as ISIS.

The decision came after a meeting of Islamic clerics this week declared a fatwa, or ruling, against suicide bombings, one of which, claimed by ISIS, killed 14 people at the entrance to the clerics’ peace tent in Kabul, the capital.