"The enemy has very deceitfully taken advantage of the Tet ceasefire to launch an offensive all over the country," Lockhart tells his reporters.
On January 30th, during Tet, the Vietnamese New Year, the North Vietnamese Army and the Vietcong broke a ceasefire and launched a surprise offensive in more than a hundred cities and towns in South Vietnam.
Since Dr. Slutkin's Ceasefire program launched in Chicago, some areas of the city have seen instances of violent crime drop by as much as 70percentt.
Since Dr. Slutkin's Ceasefire programme launched in Chicago, some areas of the city have seen instances of violent crime drop by as much as 70percentt.
Moreover, at the time of writing, Hamas cynically abused an agreed upon humanitarian ceasefire to launch rockets, mortars and a suicide bomber so that they could abduct an Israeli soldier.
Kerry is due to meet his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, later this week in Munich, where the 20 members of the International Syria Support Group, which includes Russia and Iran, Assad's main regional backer, will hold a fourth meeting to try to agree a ceasefire and launch a political transition in Syria, as laid down in UN resolution late last year.
The Israeli government accused Hamas of breaking the ceasefire by launching a salvo of rockets about eight hours before it was to have expired, and told its delegation in Cairo to return home shortly afterwards.
"They used the ceasefire to launch an attack.
As the ceasefire was announced, Israel launched air strikes in response to rocket fire from Gaza.
As another temporary ceasefire ends with rockets launched from Gaza, Palestinian officials negotiating a longer-term truce have said international funding for Gaza's reconstruction must be part of the deal.
