A year after Gaza war, long neglected southern Israel enjoying a renaissance

With Gaza cease-fire, south Israel blossoms

Nigeria’s main militant group calls for an indefinite cease-fire

Nigeria militant group calls indefinite cease-fire

US defense official says Russia not complying with cease-fire that ended the war with Georgia

US: Russia not complying with Georgia war truce

US defense official says Russia not complying with Georgia war cease-fire

TBILISI, Georgia — A senior U.S. defense official says Russia is not complying with the cease-fire that ended last year’s war with Georgia, and says Washington wants international observers in Russian-controlled territories.

Nigeria’s president says that amnesty granted to militants has led to peace in oil-rich region

ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigeria’s president said an amnesty granted to militants over the past two months in the oil-rich Niger Delta has restored peace to the region.

Nigerian militants in the oil-rich Delta region vow to resume attacks next week

ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigeria’s main militant group vowed to resume attacks after a cease-fire expires next week, while the government said Thursday that more than 8,000 militants had disarmed as part of an amnesty program.

Key Nigerian militants taking part in amnesty deal, government official says

ABUJA, Nigeria — Key Nigerian militants have agreed to disarm and a government spokeswoman said that is improving the country’s oil production. Analysts, though, warned Wednesday that militant attacks could resume after a cease-fire expires next week.

Nigeria says truce with delta militants holding, amnesty has been accepted

UNITED NATIONS — A two-month-old truce in Nigeria’s oil-rich southern Delta region is holding and the militants have accepted an amnesty offer, according to Nigeria’s Foreign Minister Ojo Maduekwe.

International aid agencies warns that Yemen’s humanitarian crisis is ‘deepening’

SAN’A, Yemen — Yemen’s Shiite rebels Tuesday called for an independent arbitration committee to help mediate a lasting cease-fire in their ongoing war with the government as aid agencies warned that the humanitarian crisis could worsen if immediate action is not taken.

Yemen’s government offers a new cease-fire deal to Shiite insurgents fighting in the north

SAN’A, Yemen — Yemen offered a conditional cease-fire on Saturday to the Shiite rebels it is battling in the north, following international concern over a deadly airstrike against civilians displaced from the war zones.

Yemen offers end of Ramadan cease-fire to Shiite rebels fighting in the north

SAN’A, Yemen — The Yemeni government has offered a new conditional cease-fire, the second this month, to end fighting with Shiite rebels in the north of the country.

Ethnic guerrillas in northern Myanmar reported to have broken cease-fire with government

BANGKOK — Fighting reportedly broke out Thursday between an ethnic militia and government security forces in northeastern Myanmar, breaching a two-decade cease-fire.

Afghan president orders Afghan forces to observe election day cease-fire

KABUL — Afghanistan’s president says he’s ordering Afghan security forces to observe a cease-fire during the upcoming election day.

Key moments in ETA’s violent campaign

Key events in the history of the armed Basque group ETA:

US forces stop publicizing militant body counts in Afghanistan

KABUL — The U.S. military in Afghanistan has stopped releasing body counts of insurgents believed killed in operations because the tolls distract from the U.S. objective of protecting Afghans, a spokesman said Monday.

Local Taliban commander, Afghan gov’t agree to cease-fire in northwest province

KABUL — An Afghan official says the government and a Taliban commander who controls a small part of northwestern Afghanistan have agreed to a cease-fire.

Nigerian militants free 6 hostages from oil tanker, Norwegian company says

ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigerian militants have freed six crew members abducted earlier this month from an oil tanker, a Norwegian oil services company said.

Nigerian government says as many as 10,000 fighters can take amnesty for oil sabotage

ABUJA, Nigeria — As many as 10,000 militants who have sabotaged oil production in Nigeria’s restive Niger Delta could take advantage of an amnesty deal offered last month, an official said Friday.

Israel: Hezbollah arms depot blast shows Iran, Syria still sending weapons to militant group

JERUSALEM — Israel accused Iran and Syria Thursday of sending weapons to Lebanon’s Hezbollah in violation of a U.N. cease-fire after one of the militant group’s arms warehouses in south Lebanon blew up.

Israel: Explosion at Hezbollah warehouse shows ‘flagrant’ violations of UN resolutions

JERUSALEM — Israel accused Iran and Syria on Thursday of sending weapons to Lebanon’s Hezbollah in violation of U.N. resolutions, after one of the militant group’s weapons depots blew up near the Israeli border.

Analysis: Nigeria oil truce won’t end conflict; government must resolve decades-old grievances

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — A truce called by Nigeria’s leading militant group may provide a brief respite in a conflict crippling Africa’s biggest oil producer but is unlikely to end the fight unless the government addresses decades-old grievances such as pollution, underdevelopment, corruption and lack of freedom.

Nigerian rebels call cease-fire but say troop movements threatens peace in oil region

ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigerian militants called a halt Wednesday to their campaign of attacking oil installations and kidnapping foreigners, then said military gunboats and troops were heading toward a rebel camp in a move that could upend the deal.

Nigerian rebels: troop movement threatens 12-hour cease-fire in oil-rich south

ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigeria’s main militant group claimed Wednesday that military gun boats and troops were heading toward one of their camps in the oil-rich south, threatening a rebel cease-fire just 12 hours after it was called.

Nigerian militants halt in oil region, invite talks with government, after rebel released

ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigeria’s main militant group called a 60-day cease-fire Wednesday, halting its campaign of vandalizing oil installations and kidnapping foreigners after the government released an ailing rebel leader.

Nigerian oil militants call 60-day cease-fire in response to release of rebel leader

ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigeria’s main militant group said Wednesday it is calling an immediate 60-day cease-fire in response to the government’s release of an ailing rebel leader.

Nigeria oil militants call 60-day cease-fire in response to release of rebel leader

ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigeria’s main militant group says it is calling a 60-day cease-fire immediately in response to the release of an ailing rebel leader.

Correction: Forest Cease-fire story

TAKILMA, Ore. — In a June 22 story about a federal forest thinning project, The Associated Press erroneously reported its name. It is the Hope Mountain Stewardship Project, not the House Hope Stewardship Project.

Forest restoration project brings together old enemies in logging wars

TAKILMA, Ore. — On a steep slope of the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, a crew of young men with chain saws and hardhats worked their way through an old neglected clearcut, cutting brush and young trees and piling the remains to be burned later.

Sri Lanka says captured video shows rebels disguising themselves as civilians

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Video footage captured from Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels showed their fighters forcing civilians to assist their war effort and depicted one insurgent in street clothes firing a heavy machine gun, the military said Thursday.

Key moments in the struggle for Pakistan’s Swat Valley

Key moments in the struggle between Taliban militants and Pakistani authorities for control of the northwestern Swat Valley.