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Taliban council agrees to cease-fire in Afghanistan

A peace deal would allow Washington to bring home its troops from Afghanistan and end its 18-year military engagement there, America's longest.

Credit: AP

FILE - In this Dec. 25, 2019, file photo, an Army carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael Goble, at Dover Air Force Base, Del.. Goble, a U.S. Special Forces soldier who died in Afghanistan this week, was seizing a Taliban weapons cache when he was killed, the U.S. military said Friday. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban say the ruling council has agreed to a temporary cease-fire nationwide, without saying when it would begin. It provides a window during which a peace agreement with the United States could be signed.

A peace deal would allow Washington to bring home its troops from Afghanistan and end its 18-year military engagement there, America's longest.

The U.S. wants any deal to include a promise from the Taliban that Afghanistan would not be used as a base by terrorist groups.

The U.S. currently has an estimated 12,000 troops in Afghanistan.

The duration of the cease-fire announced Sunday was not specified but it is being suggested it would last for 10 days.

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